Cricket: Joe Root's demands to reset first-class game will not happen for at least 12 MONTHS
Joe Root’s demand for a reset for English first-class cricket will not happen for at least 12 months. Test captain Root urged the prioritisation of the traditional form of the game — emulating the attention given to white-ball cricket following the hopeless 2015 World Cup — after the Ashes went disastrously. England captain is looking for a reset to the first class game, but will have to wait a year Root's England stars were recently humiliated 4-0 in the Ashes Test series in Australia Half the 16 rounds of County Championship matches will once again be played in the season’s book-end months of April and September, although a more even spread has been created across midsummer in response to last year’s paucity of four-day cricket between June 1 and August 29. Only three rounds were scheduled then, leaving England’s Test players bereft of competitive preparation before the home series with India, but five will span that 90-day period this year, and first-class representative matches against touring teams New Zealand and South Africa have also been penned in.
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