Is there any sport which attracts the armchair administrator the way that cricket does?  Football fans don't seem to worry themselves too much about the ins and outs of financial fair play but were pretty effective in killing off proposals for a European super league.  Cricket fans are the reverse, always with some elaborate plan for how things can be better, which no - one pays any attention to. Sideonblogspot is a victim of this disease, broadcasting to an empty universe but hey - ho, and this blog is my to do list for new ECB chairman  Richard Thompson . Before I get to my 7 steps for a happy game there are a couple of areas where I've no idea what to do and I'm not touching.  Firstly  the rise of the IPL under the auspices of the BCCI is an existential threat to the ECB which is an extension of the MCC and its imperial, paternal, world view.  Responding to existential threats is a bit tricky and I'll say no more. Secondly messing around with the structure of the Eng