A refreshing change after the IPL

The distance, and the resulting lack of urgency in the World Twenty20, turns out to be rather welcome after the eyebrow-singeing, trouser-igniting hysteria of the IPL, writes Giles Smith in the Times.

True, the final over that Pakistan bowled at Australia the other day yielded a five-wicket maiden, and you don’t often see one of those, outside of a beach game featuring children under 8 and an ultra-competitive dad. In the main, though, the rhythm and the tone feel rather becoming. In fact (whisper it), they feel quite a lot like cricket.