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Can The Counties Survive?

I was just reading back this post about Warwickshire's 2019 accounts.  Written in February, without a single reference to coronavirus, events make fools of us all.  This post is a collection of musings about the financial position of county cricket given the certainty the coronavirus will, at best, significantly reduce the amount of cricket played in 2020 and might mean we lose a year (or two, or three or five) of cricket in the UK. With UK deaths from the disease in the tens of thousands and thousands of new cases a day none of this really matters, but sport is supposed to be a distraction.... Introduction The starting point for this post is this  cricinfo review of the steps each county was taking in response to the pandemic.  What is interesting is one or two of the smaller counties indicate they think the financial burden of the cessation of cricket will fall on the test hosting grounds.  Durham chief executive, Tim Bostock said the following: " They'