Virat Kohli gives ECB’s 100-ball ‘experiment’ the thumbs down

• India’s captain declines being a guinea pig for The Hundred
• ‘Commercialism is taking over the real quality of cricket’

Virat Kohli has poured scorn on the ECB’s new 100-ball format called The Hundred, saying he does not want to be part of an experiment.

The India captain said commercialism “is taking over the real quality of cricket” and as a Test player he would not join the England and Wales Cricket Board’s city-based competition when it launches in 2020, adding: “I cannot think of one more format.”

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