Most of the oppositions in society are artificial, and describe life as others would have us live it. Cricket’s contrived fault line is populated on one side by “conservatives” who insist on the inviolability of Test cricket, and on the other by “progressives” who contend they should “move on”. Sound thinking has sunk into the crack.
Thank heaven cricket has people like Ian Chappell. Chappell writes for us because, along with a handful of ex-players like the late Richie Benaud, Rod Marsh and now Justin Langer, no-one has spoken greater sense about the game with only the state of the game in mind, minus ego or self-serving agenda. Ian’s column in this issue shows his mastery of cricket nous.
Sound thinking, always necessary, fled the moment T20 sashayed into the…
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Inside Cricket (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2016