Alastair Cook
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The former skipper of the England Cricket Team Alastair Cook insists England Cricket Board (ECB) have a full county season in 2021 rather than reducing matches in 2020. With Coronavirus outbreak, England and Wales Cricket Board recently suspended all types of cricket until May 28th.

The county season was to start on April 12 but the England and Wales Cricket Board ruled that no cricket would be possible before May 28 in view of the pandemic, that has thrown the world into disarray. The postponement means that the first seven rounds of the competition have already been lost.

Former England captain Alastair Cook has said that he would prefer a season without the County Championship to playing a reduced version of the competition. When it is possible to resume playing, chief Tom Harrison has made clear that the more lucrative domestic competitions will be prioritised, meaning the T20 Blast and the Hundred would take precedence over the Championship.

Alastair Cook
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I hope they don’t try six-match tournament – Alastair Cook

Speaking of the same, Alastair Cook, who won the competition in 2017 and 2019 with Essex, said that he would like to defend the title while playing the full season rather than playing the lessened version of the tournament.

“In this year, over the next six months, the bigger picture is the most important,” Cook told ‘BBC Radio 5 Live’. Whatever happens, if we do play any sort of cricket which hopefully we will, what I hope is that they don’t try and have a six-game County Championship or something like that,” he said.

“I would rather have one or two full tournaments because if you do then play that tournament or two tournaments, it is so much more rewarding to win it. If there is no time for a meaningful County Championship, say (you can only play) three or four games, there is probably not much sense us having it,” he added.

Well, it would be interesting to see whether the board support the viewpoint of Alastair Cook. As of now, the return of the game is expected to have a delay with the virus attack growing on a regular basis.

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