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I’m really enjoying the IPL Twenty20 cricket in India at the moment. But I have a gnawing feeling of something missing.

Test cricket, the longer form of the game, and the pre-eminent form, allows the game to develop over days. It builds and enthralls.

Too much Twenty20 is like having dessert only at every meal. It sounds like a great idea, and tastes great, but before long you start to long for a complete meal.

I love my Twenty20, but I am looking forward to seeing Tests again.

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Dunno what it’s like in other sports, but in the AFL, a drawn game is a curse.
Since 2005, teams featuring in a draw have only won 2 out a possible 16 games the following week.
Now the easy answer is that it’s a close, hard game, so it’s physically taken something out of the players.
But no. […]

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Who isn’t sick of watching the Aussies hammer everyone? What we’ve always lacked is seeing the Aussies compete against themselves. The domestic competition and the international compete against each other, greatly weaking the former.
Who wouldn’t have wanted to see Warne versus Hayden? Symond versus Lee? McGrath versus Gilchrist? And so on.
Well, in the IPL we […]

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Don Bradman, the greatest batsman ever in cricket, may have missed the perfect 100 run average because of a rule change early in his career.

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