it's a massive achievement to play for yorkshireso yeah it's fantastic. >>reporter: a few years ago 2020 cricket was seen as a financial saviour for the counties... and last year the fixture list was actually extended... but for many counties that didn't equal more money... and this season fixtures have been scaled back again... >>we went from having 10 to 16 20/20 matches and what we found was that we had a similar overall gate; it was spread over more games >>it's not about expanding the number of games. it's who plays in those games. it's making those games attractive. >>reporter: even india's showpiece premier league has seen tv audiences fall by a quarter this year... so is the shine already coming off 2020? >>as with any new product it will go in a cycle. so i think... i'm very convinced there's enough substance in 2020 to make sure that it's here for a long time. >>reporter: as for the 4 day game's future... another harbinger of doom may be that as much as waiting for a wicket to fall, many of the crowd here appeared to be waiting for god ... >>we'