End of the world? No problem
The media continue to pore over what effects the IPL will have on cricket as we know it
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
The media continue to pore over what effects the IPL will have on cricket as we know it. Richard Williams in The Guardian takes a positive view:
"Cricket first developed on village greens such as Hambledon; it looks as though it may come to an end at Bangalore," a former editor of the Times wrote yesterday, deploring Twenty20's success. Strip away the cheerleaders, the film stars, the promotion and the players' salaries, however, and I'll bet that last weekend's inaugural IPL match was closer to the game played by Hampshire landowners and rustics on Broadhalfpenny Down in the middle of the 18th century than the weird, distended, passionless version enacted at various county grounds last week.
No one is taking the Indian Premier League more seriously than Shane Warne, writes Simon Hughes in the Daily Telegraph.
He has taken an unlikely character under his wing. Dinesh Salunkhe is a swarthy 25-year-old from Bombay who last year was an anonymous club player ... Warne likes him. "He's got a positive attitude and learns fast. The important thing about leg-spin is not where the ball lands but how it gets there. You vary your grip, trajectory and position on the crease, and you can make two apparently similar balls totally different."