Twenty20

T20 should be seen as a separate sport

On his blog, A Cricketing View , Kartikeya Date argues that 20 overs is too short a duration to maintain the fine balance between bat and ball, which has helped Test cricket endure for so long

25-Feb-2013•Sidharth Monga

Watching a contest vs enjoying a party

It is with great pain that Robert Shrimsley, writing for Financial Times , calls a Twenty20 match a game of cricket, as his boy loves it, untouched by the absorbing potential of the 'real game'

25-Feb-2013•Abhishek Mukherjee

The end game has begun for international cricket

Former Pakistan batsman Ramiz Raja, writing in the Dawn , says that a majority of players around the world are treating international matches as a springboard to be picked for a T20 league.

25-Feb-2013•Carlyle Laurie

Twenty20 .... now that’s what I call entertainment!

Former England allrounder David Lloyd, writing in the Manchester Evening News , says that while the Twenty20 format has great entertainment value, it isn’t really cricket.

25-Feb-2013•Carlyle Laurie

Gayle: Twenty20's WG Grace

If not Twenty20's Bradman, then Chris Gayle is its WG Grace, its Ranjitsinhji, says the Old Batsman, in his blog : in the format's infant years, Gayle is a conceptual force, its vision of the future.

25-Feb-2013•Nikita Bastian

Old Australian dogs, assorted mongrels and lesser-spotted biffers

Hello and welcome to the animal farm that is our glorious game

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

The last four overs

This is it for Shane Warne then

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

Twenty20 needs a different spin

The recent emergence of the Twenty20 game has confronted traditional cricket with the equivalent of a reverse swinging yorker, writes Greg Dyer in the Sunday Herald

25-Feb-2013•Akhila Ranganna

Exclusive: Australia's seven-point winning plan leaked

And you thought Long Handle was just a fan's diary

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

A spy, a travesty, a blanket for Shastri

More musings and observations from the last few days gone by

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

An in-depth look at Twenty20 results

A detailed study of Twenty20 results indicates the matches haven't been as close as you'd expect

25-Feb-2013•Anantha Narayanan

Twenty20 a passing fad

After seeing fairly small crowds at many domestic Twenty20 games in England this season, Martin Samuel writes in the Daily Mail that the format is a passing fad

25-Feb-2013•Nitin Sundar

The ten Doeschate issue, and cider-like skies

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

Twenty20 as you don't know it

With the Test in West Indies getting interrupted by rain, Andrew Hughes switches to domestic Twenty20 action in England, a world with its own set of rules, no floodlights and faraway music

25-Feb-2013•Andrew Hughes

Will we see more innovation in Twenty20?

The moment Dilshan executed his shot, the bowler's final sanctuary was lost, and what was the batsman's no man's land was conquered

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

Greatness in a lightweight format?

Peter Roebuck asks in the Hindu whether Twenty20 players can achieve greatness, though the stage is smaller

25-Feb-2013•Cricinfo

IPL? I'll take the Aberdeen Evening Cricket League instead

Gale force winds, uncovered pitches, pensioner batsmen, and the sight of public toilets as sightscreens cannot be replicated in the International Pomposity League

25-Feb-2013•Rene Van Oorschot

'Twenty20 will become the dominant format'

Donald McRae, of the Guardian , caught up with Lalit Modi, the IPL Commissioner, in Mumbai

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

What the Royals 2020 could mean for cricket

The Royals' plan to establish a global franchise shows that cricket's permanent revolution is not yet at an end, writes Andy Bull in the Guardian .

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

Guilty pleasure of the cave-dwelling heretic

25-Feb-2013•Jamie Alter

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