Former MCC chief Keith Bradshaw queries ECB 'innovation for innovation's sake'
[ad_1] Keith Bradshaw , the SACA chief executive, says he hopes that the ECB's new 100-ball tournament is not "innovation for innovation's sake", ten years after his own proposals for a franchise-style T20 tournament in England and Wales were deemed too radical for serious consideration by the board. Bradshaw, who was chief executive at MCC for five years from 2006, returned to South Australia in 2011 to oversee an acclaimed Aus$565 million refit of the historic Adelaide Oval. Adelaide Strikers are also the reigning champions of the Big Bash League - a tournament whose success in attracting kids and families back to cricket has been a major influence in the ECB's recent attempts to reframe their own version of the sport. However, critics of the 100-ball proposal - which had been shrouded in secrecy until the ECB's surprise announcement last week - fear that this is an attempt by the board to reinvent the wheel after failing to exploit the T20 boom, despite hav...