Essex,Kent & Middlesex to play at Olympic Stadium from 2016?

Very reasonable post. But I think most models of a franchise plan involve the ECB retaining a large per centage of the revenues and redistributing them to the 18 counties to keep four day cricket going. In David Lloyd's variation of the scheme, we would also keep a parochical lower-key county T20 competition (perhaps more like the old JPL) but all of the big names like Gayle and Malinga and Mitchell Johnson would be in the francished version. As almost none of those bums-on-seats names play in the county T20 Bash anyway, the counties would not be losing out on anything. Surely the most important issue is to find a model that enables us to keep the county championship intact with as many of the current 18 counties as we can, and what colours the T20 teams fly under is irrelevant, as long as they provide the revenue to sustain that more traditional structure in other formats of the game?

I confess I have a totally ulterior motive that biases me in favour of the Olympic Stadium : I have a property in Stratford and spent Sat afternoon in the Olympic Park with my grandchildren. It took us 20 mins to walk there - and that was at the pace of a two year old on a tricycle!