It’s cricket in badlight

Posted on   2:28 pm

It’s just no longer cricket. At least, not as we know it. Barring the bat, ball and stumps, not many of the essential symbols of the hoary game would survive the onslaught of the market forces. The ascendency of the fifty-over version of the game as a money-spinner had already relegated the all-white slow motion Test cricket to secondary status.