If T20 is already more popular than County Cricket, then why is County Cricket still being played? My guess is that most of the English adminstrators like County Cricket as it's the historical backbone of the English summer, that the players still like it because they hope to play Test cricket one day, and they can't do that by solely playing ODDs and T20s, and that a lot of cricket fans are still following it, regardless of how many drift in to the stands.

Besides, there's usually a flow-on effect to these sorts of things, isn't there- people who've had all the wrong ideas about cricket, who've never been to a game before, see a T20 match, like it, start to learn some of the players' names, start following them in County Cricket and develop a taste for it, too. Now I don't know how big a proportion of these fans will be affected this way, but it will surely- surely- affect some.