While a once showpiece competition reduced to a developmental sideshow played out to its usual sparse midweek audience at a ramshackle New Road ground so unfit for purpose that Worcestershire’s first two County Championship fixtures of 2024 have been relocated, Ashley Giles took stock of English cricket’s troubling state.
“I don’t think there has ever been a more fragile time for the whole game,” he said, as his new club eased to a facile One-Day Cup win over Glamorgan.
