Perish the thought of Test cricket competing in this ‘battle royale’ betwixt two, or possibly three, or more — the idea of T10 League, among other innovations, because when nature unleashes its hypnotic silver-lining, conventional wisdom is most often the reluctant victim.
Put simply, when ‘one-day cricket’ began with the Gillette Cup in 1963, it sure was a quiet beginning. It appealed to a few, but not the purists, as also ardent lovers of traditional Test-match cricket. The high priests of the game went for the jugular — they called the ‘quick-fix’ game nothing short of blasphemy. A flimsy masquerade too.
The wheel has turned full-circle. With the glut that is Twenty20 (T20) cricket today, this fulsome, new-fangled genre has reached its crescendo. The purists and traditional game-watchers, not ‘poachers,’ are up in arms, each with a different storyline, with the plot being the same, “Where is cricket going — with its surfeit of commercialisation and mega-bucks?”
‘Quickie/Quickie’ cricket, or what is now (in)famously called Twenty20 cricket, has sure come to stay. And, like its precursor, one-day cricket, the idea has caught-up, and switched on a new ‘riot’ of colours, even in countries where cricket does not have a following. Well, if it doesn’t, in certain ‘provinces,’ for whatever reason, there is nothing much to lose, right?
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