Legends League | ‘We just took the eye off Test cricket’
The Hindu
Ashes setback due to decline in England’s four-day cricket, says Cork
England has had a disastrous Ashes campaign Down Under. Some of the blame for it has been laid at the door of the IPL by certain quarters.
Dominic Cork, however, begs to differ. “We will blame anything,” the former England all-rounder told The Hindu. “We will blame the IPL, The Hundred. The reason is that we just took the eye off Test cricket.”
He feels the reason is due more to the decline of the four-day domestic game in England. “We don’t have the quality we had back in the 1990s when we had top overseas players,” said Cork, who is here as television commentator for the Legends League Cricket. “We used to have Mohammed Azharuddin, Sachin Tendulkar, Michael Holding, Brian Lara and many others.”