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Sussex want to create a new T10 tournament for non-Hundred-hosting counties that would take place during August alongside the One-Day Cup.<\/p>\n
There is widespread frustration among the smaller counties at the limited cricket they currently play during the height of the summer, with Sussex having just four days\u2019 play at home during this year\u2019s Hundred, which began on 21 July and will conclude with the final at Lord\u2019s on 16 August. Though the county of Sussex comes under Southern Brave\u2019s umbrella, the franchise\u2019s home matches take place at Hampshire\u2019s Utilita Bowl.<\/p>\n Ed Warner, the new Sussex chair, has come up with one potential solution to boost their revenue as well as providing more competitive action for players who do not feature in the Hundred.<\/p>\n \u201cThe ECB has probably been far too protective of the Hundred to get the money in,\u201d Warner told the Guardian. \u201cBut now they need to be a little more wide-ranging in their thinking about the cricket calendar.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll be lobbying to open up the cricketing calendar with events that don\u2019t compete directly with the Hundred, but are money-generating opportunities for us, and a chance for our players to play the game.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy couldn\u2019t you have a T10 triangular competition with Kent and Essex, for example? Make it very kid-friendly, make it a day at the seaside, then go and play at Canterbury, then go and play in Chelmsford. Those are the sorts of things that I don\u2019t think competes with the Hundred, but does compete with other entertainments in the school holidays in our local area.\u201d<\/p>\n Several of Sussex\u2019s players are featuring in this year\u2019s competition, with James Coles being picked up by London Spirit and Jofra Archer being retained by Southern Brave. All-rounder Coles, at \u00a3390,000, was the most expensive player in March\u2019s auction, which was the competition\u2019s first.<\/p>\n Warner was speaking after the publication of a governance review at Sussex, who as revealed by the Guardian in January have been placed in special measures<\/a> by the ECB for breaching financial sustainability regulations.<\/p>\n Sussex were docked 12 points in this season\u2019s County Championship the following month, and further points deductions will follow if they do not reduce last year\u2019s \u00a31.3m losses to \u00a31m by October and break even 12 months later.<\/p>\n While Warner believes that Sussex are victims of the structure of English cricket, which gives disproportionate rewards to the Test match venues and Hundred hosts, he accepts the findings of the external review conducted by consultancy Campbell Tickell, which concluded that the club\u2019s financial plight was the result of poor management and a lack of commercial and governance expertise.<\/p>\n
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