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ENGLAND and Wales Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke has declined to retract a claim he once made that county cricket should be abolished. Clarke, re-elected for a second term earlier this year, also suggested that the governance of English cricket might be better off 'handed to the Indians'.
The controversial comments, which Clarke made in 2000, resurfaced when they were published on a business website. In the original interview Clarke had said: 'County cricket is no longer a viable economic activity. It does not create a Test-winning team. We got the Germans to run the (British) motor industry and, while that may not have worked, maybe the Indians could come and run cricket and make it work.See the full content of this document
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Clarke wanted to axe counties ; EXCLUSIVE [Edition 3]
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