Nick Bloom has recently published a book on county cricket, " Batting for Time: The Fight to Keep English Cricket Alive". I haven't read the book, but the review in the  Daily Telegraph got a lot of attention for a quote from Durham Chief Executive Tim Bostock describing county members as Luddites.  The "L" word is only the half of it, Bostock also describes county members as the "lowest common denominator."  This is a companion piece to an article published last year in the Telegraph where an unnamed ECB source described county members as "fleas on the tail of the dog." The middle - management rungs of English cricket's bureaucracy have an odd attitude towards paying customers.  Of course contempt for customers can extend to the free market but the rule is it shouldn't be openly expressed, even a bank that has me on hold for half an hour will say every two minutes "your business is important to us".  If English cricket had