We need to be honest about the Hundred: it feels as real as Ted Lasso | The Secret Cricket Coach

The shirts, the songs, the supporters, the rivalries. Somebody created the whole thing and it’s all disconnected from county cricket’s culture and history I went to Old Trafford expecting to watch a game of cricket. Instead, I left thinking about history, identity and whether you can manufacture belonging. Walking through the concourses, I found myself surrounded by the faces of Lancashire’s greats. Farokh Engineer. Sir Clive Lloyd. Players whose stories are woven into the fabric of the ground.…