New ECB chair Richard Thompson has performed a U-turn on The Hundred, having previously voted against the tournament in his role as Surrey chair.
During his time in charge of Surrey, they were the only county to vote against the introduction of The Hundred and he also resigned from the ECB board in 2018, claiming that "too many decisions are being made without enough genuine debate" with The Hundred one of them.
At the time, he told the Cricketer : "We may have become a victim of our own success by producing a great format that we then lost control of and the IPL managed to capitalise on more successfully than we did."
