Joe Root piles pressure on cricket chiefs over Hundred format

Joe Root piles pressure on cricket chiefs over Hundred format

Joe Root has piled pressure on the England and Wales Cricket Board and the new Hundred owners to keep the competition’s format. While ECB bigwig Richard Thompson said the competition would remain 100 balls per innings, fewer than the 120 seen in Twenty20 competitions, the new franchise investors have been mulling a change to the format to create a T20 league which could be more easily packaged with the Indian IPL and South African SA20 – both of…