More than \u00a3500m was raised when stakes in the eight Hundred franchises were sold last year – money that has been spread across the professional and domestic game.<\/p>\n
Some counties have used the funds to clear debts or invest in infrastructure.<\/p>\n
But to maximise the tournament’s appeal, a window in July and August has been cleared of international cricket so that England’s players are available for their franchises. <\/p>\n
England are no longer able to pull their players out of The Hundred to prepare for international matches and bowler Josh Tongue described the turnaround as “crazy scheduling”.<\/p>\n
“We were criticised that The Hundred finished and two days later we were playing a Test match at Headingley,” Thompson said. <\/p>\n
“Imagine if that becomes one day – that can’t happen.”<\/p>\n
The Hundred has also added to the congested domestic calendar which includes the County Championship, the T20 Blast and the One-Day Cup, which is now played beneath the Hundred, often as a second-team competition.<\/p>\n
“We are having to crowbar so much cricket in,” Thompson said.<\/p>\n
“There are only four countries in the world that have managed to create a window that can pretty much guarantee the financial success of their game – us, South Africa, India, Australia.”<\/p>\n
Thompson also described the continued questions around the professionalism of England’s men’s team as “enormously” disappointing.<\/p>\n
Bowler Brydon Carse was left out England’s for the second Test against Pakistan after being briefly arrested on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly while on duty with Durham. <\/p>\n
He was de-arrested but investigations by the police and Cricket Regulator remain ongoing. Images on social media showed Carse in handcuffs and surrounded by police officers.<\/p>\n
“When you play for your country you are judged by far higher standards,” Thompson said.<\/p>\n
“What comes with wearing those three lions comes with respect, responsibility and pride. <\/p>\n
“Unless you live and breathe those qualities there is a problem. <\/p>\n
“Every player has to understand the responsibility that comes with playing for England.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than \u00a3500m was raised when stakes in the eight Hundred franchises were sold last year – money…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}