Mention cricket, and some still think of the gentle game played on a village green in England, where leather thuds against willow, slumbering spectators mutter ‘Good shot, sir’ and church bells toll in the middle distance… But this cricket and that England and is an outdated as the idea of Empire and the game today is as much about cable television, huge crowds at one day internationals in Mumbai to Islamabad, or floodlit Twenty 20 games timed to maximize ...
