The ECB board met at Lord's yesterday to consider initial feedback from broadcasters concerning the structure of county cricket from 2010, but the counties themselves are thought to be increasingly dismayed that they have had no formal opportunity to present their views.
Paul Sheldon, Surrey's chief executive, said: "I am completely in the dark as to what they might propose. All I know about is what I've read in the press."
Dismay is growing, according to press reports, at talk of what most see as unworkable ideas, far removed from what they see as the priority - the future of Twenty20. The list includes a reduced championship split into three conferences; a return to three-day championship cricket: a Twenty20 league (the so-called English Premier League beginning in 2010), which would include three invited overseas sides and a 40-overs competition, which would consist of two innings apiece, each of 20 overs.
The ECB plans to carry out market research into these ideas among Twenty20 crowds from June 11-27.
