Fact: There's too much darn cricket on
With there being no such thing as a cricket season - unless you’re referring to the period between January 1 and December 31 - cricket is being robbed of it's meaning says Shehan Karunatilaka, writing in Outlook India .
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
With there being no such thing as a cricket season - unless you’re referring to the period between January 1 and December 31 - cricket is being robbed of it's meaning says Shehan Karunatilaka, writing in Outlook India.
It’s all about context. At a time when commentators were heralding the death of one-day cricket, the World Cup proved that there was still life in the old format. There were plenty of nail-biters, many of which featured England. Each game had a meaning, a subtext and a reason for being. Something which a 7-game series between New Zealand and Zimbabwe may lack. While the World Cup final had most of us riveted, can the same be said for the last 50 Sri Lanka-India games, which probably took place in as many weeks? If we keep repeating the same battles and lowering the stakes, cricket will be shorn of its meaning.
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo