India’s captain Virat Kohli has delivered a withering assessment of the ECB’s money-making 100-ball competition by saying he is “hurt” by the way commercialism is taking over the game.
In words that appear to end any chance of luring him over to play the new city-based competition when it launches in 20120, Kohli said he would refuse to act as a guinea pig for the new format.
Traditionalists have been dismayed by some of the tinkering for the competition, including five-ball overs and the possibility of bowlers sending down 10 consecutive deliveries.
While the ECB believes such innovations will open the game up to a whole new generation of supporters, Kohli is clearly not convinced.
In a wide-ranging interview with Wisden Cricket Monthly, Kohli said: “Obviously for the people involved in the whole process and the set-up it will be really exciting but I cannot think of one more format, to be honest,” he said.
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