ECB High Performance Review: Proposals just as unworkable as current timeline, says Sussex chief

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) High Performance Review, led by Sir Andrew Strauss, suggests several changes to improve Test cricket.

County Championship and Twenty20 Blast matches may be reduced.

"Strauss' high performance review is also impractical when it comes to county cricket," said Filby.

"When you look at it through the prism of high performance, this is exactly what the game needs. But we don't just look through the prism of high performance," he told BBC 5 Live Sports Extra.

"We look through a financial and business lens. We let's look through the eyes of our members who have the cricket they want and we look a lot through a variety of angles that aren't just high performance."

The new plans would also see a first division reduced to six teams and dedicated windows for the One-Day Cup, T20 Blast and the Hundred.

They come after the Ashes' disappointing campaign in England, with Australia claiming a landslide 4-0 victory.

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Former England bowler Steven Finn has told the BBC he thinks that the recommendations could see an improvement on the "world stage".

"I hope this means that there is an improvement in the level cricket," he said.

"Sometimes you can drift through games or weeks because they come so thick and fast sometimes with the cramps of the season.

"There should be an improvement in quality. There may be a reduction in quantity, but quality is most important for the game to be more competitive on the global stage, which is ultimately what this report is about."

And although he didn't want to be drawn on how many county games would suit the players, Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart, whose team won the county league title this season, agrees to reduce playing time can improve players.

"Once the energy goes down, your performance goes down, so you're trying to maintain high performance, that's what it was all about, so there's a good balance," he said at BBC 5 Live Sports Extra.

Warwickshire cricket manager Paul Farbrace said he argued "to have a very good look at the best structure for English cricket" but that "we just have to be careful".

"If we want to be the best test nation, no We need to make sure our players play enough red ball cricket," he told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"My personal view would be that I would like to see all three groups of six - that would be a really good way to go,"

"It doesn't necessarily mean in Warwickshire that we're going to vote that way. There's a lot of work to do to get to this point, but I like the best against the best because that's the only way we can compete and be the best Test nation in the world."

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However, Essex Chief Executive and Acting Chairman John Stephenson believes the proposed changes would not improve British cricketers.

"There are differing opinions on all of this and you may have some huge debates about what makes a better test player," he told BBC Essex. >"In my opinion, reducing the amount of red ball cricket is not the way to produce better test cricketers.< /p>

"Certainly from Essex's point of view, we wouldn't want see a reduction in the number of championship crickets."