Surrey Executive Director Alec Stewart has spoken of his frustrations with the club’s fixture list this season.
Stewart, writing in his regular column on the BBC Sport website, described the period in early July when Surrey have three home games in the FLt20 in the space of four days as “crazy”, particularly in contrast to the lack of four day cricket at the Kia Oval from May 23 to August 15.
“We’re not giving the fans a sensible fixture list where they can look forward and build up to matches”, he explained. “we are also asking them to put their hands in their pockets far too regularly.
“For a variety of reasons, including the London Olympics, Surrey do not have a single home championship game at the Oval between 23 May and 15 August.
“On the flip side, there is a crazy period in the first week of July when they play three home Twenty20 matches – against major rivals Sussex, Kent and Middlesex – in the space of four days.”
“Everyone is suffering – the quality of the cricket, the fans who can’t afford to go, and the counties who suffer losses in revenue when they can’t sell seats.
“I know the England & Wales Cricket Board are looking at changing this, but the sooner they get a better structure whereby every championship game starts on the same day, and one-day and Twenty20 games have regular slots, the better.”
To read Stewart’s full column, please click here
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