22 December

I watch this, but rarely last even one innings. I’m not some traditionalist, but it’s a circus really, one day cricket is now seen to be a bore, and T20 will go the same way. It’s seen as a shot in the arm for cricket, but really it’s just a gravy train for cricketers and promoters to make shedloads of money. There’s far too much cricket being played, as a mass game it’s pretty much dead outside India, and I see T20 as the perverse last rites of the game. Bread and circuses, like the end of Rome. ‘Big Bash’ says it all, really. It’s like the porn version of cricket, eventually gimmicks run out of gimmicky ways to keep peoples’ attention.