By Frank Dalleres The Hundred isn’t going away, whatever diehard cricket traditionalists might wish. It’s been cemented into the English calendar until at least 2028 by a television deal finalised just before the arrival of the England and Wales Cricket Board’s new chair. Richard Thompson, erstwhile arch-critic of the controversial competition, now finds his room for manoeuvre severely cramped. No surprise, then, that he has adopted a pragmatically softer stance. But he must surely be searching for a solution that can reunite the game. One journalist recently likened this summer’s edition of T…