The modern game needs money, whether the old guard like it or not. I love the warm, drowsy afternoons of test-match listening but the game was in the doldrums for years before the short forms, and the sponsorship, and the broadcasting brought in the finance we have now. Cricket is no longer the bastion of the public school ethos it used to be. It's more inclusive now and the players are athletes rather than gentlemen though hopefully both.
Dorset, I'm afraid I disagree with all of your post.