CRICKET HAS ALWAYS understood, in the words of Tancredi in The Leopard, that “if we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change”. For cricket, a sport renowned for its conservatism, has been conspicuously quick to embrace change. First-class cricket spawned ONE-DAY CRICKET, which spawned TWENTY20, which spawned the (admittedly despicable, artificial) HUNDRED. Even for the traditionalists, there is now a World Test Championship.
Cricket whites gave way to playing in pyjamas. Power shifted from England and Australia to India. Players can wear microphones for the
