
- 6 days ago
FIFTY3 FRIDAYS: IT’S JUST NOT CRICKET
What’s this? Indie-rock band stops play? If you haven’t heard of it, The Hundred is a marketing exec’s idea of how to make cricket more exciting by reducing the great game to 100-ball matches between eight teams representing seven cities – weirdly London gets two - with parallel men’s and women’s versions. Now my very first time at an Old Trafford test match, aged 11, saw Ted Dexter and Ken Barrington bat all day for England at a snail’s pace. Since then, I’ve always opted fo