I know very little about this competition, other than that someone seems to think that it is a good idea to invent new team names and assume that people will swear some sort of allegiance to them. Maybe youngsters will, but this geriatric's allegiance, where there is any, is to Essex. Alastair Cook apart (and I always have to check the spelling of his first name) I don't think I would recognised any of the current Essex players from a photo, so in my case I would be able to identify a lot more cricketers from names & photos if the played before 1990 than anyone who played since. I also get very fed up with the increasing commercialisation of all sport, and utterly deprecated the stupid pyrotechnic displays that accompany (for example) rugby internationals these days.
When I was playing (thankfully, very briefly and I was never good enough - too much of a coward/sensible for front row play and not built for anything else) and keen on watching, rugby was a democratic game in which the crowd often invaded the pitch at the end of the match. On more than one occasion I can recall players being carried off on the shoulders of crowd members.
Come to think of it, I recall on my first visit to Lords that when Essex won (B & H Cup 1979) the crowd assembled in front of the pavilion to watch the presentation, and Keith Fletcher almost dropped the trophy's plinth off the balcony. That was expected. Is that the same now?