A post on the ECB and how it spends the money receives on behalf of cricket in the UK. In this post I had a moan about the lack of information in the ECB's published accounts and had a guesstimate at how the ECB might be spending its money. Well the ECB have now produced an analysis of their expenditure on cricket's behalf, you can find it here . It's a really welcome development. What follows is an analysis of how the ECB's figures compare to my estimates, a brief diversion into the accounting for The Hundred and some comments on how disclosure can be further improved. Sideon's estimates v ECB figures Area Estimate ECB £m £m Counties, boards and other 45 118 Grassroots 34 38 National Sides 42 38 The Hundred 0 39 Administration 48 40 Total 169 273 Administration as a % of total 28% 15% Differences My estimates were pretty good, in most categories I'm within a few million of the ECB's figures. I'm way out on T...