Phil Salt wants The Hundred stretched out. Welsh Fire's captain played three matches in five days during the tournament, and that schedule wore on him. Salt believes adding another week to the competition would ease the strain on players and presumably improve the quality of cricket.
The fixture congestion is real. Three matches in five days leaves minimal recovery time between games, especially in a condensed format already built on high intensity. Salt isn't complaining about The Hundred itself. He likes the tournament. He just wants breathing room between matches so players can prepare properly instead of lurching from one game to the next.
This feedback matters because it comes from a captain actively managing his squad through the tournament. Salt isn't theorizing. He's dealing with fatigue and injury risk in real time. Tournament organizers face a balancing act. The Hundred's appeal partly stems from its intensity and quick turnaround. Stretching it out might lose some of that appeal to casual fans, but players clearly feel the toll. Whether the ECB adjusts the calendar remains to be seen, but Salt's voice carries weight here as someone in the trenches.