Frankenstein's monster unleashed
Christopher Martin-Jenkins has serious reservations about the future of cricket now that Twenty20 is growing and growing
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
Christopher Martin-Jenkins has serious reservations about the future of cricket now that Twenty20 is growing and growing. The game, he says in the Times, is at once “a commercial phenomenon and a Frankenstein’s monster”:
A new chief executive for the ICC is being chosen this week and when he starts work in July his first tasks will be first to retain control of the Frankenstein in Bombay and then to restrain the monster so that it does not unbalance the game irrevocably. We want Flintoff's first loyalty to be to England, not the Mumbai Maulers.
But if you missed it a few days ago, in the same paper Shane Warne has nothing but praise for the IPL, not least because of the promotional benefits that can accrue – hair promotion products, anyone?
In the Guardian, Lawrence Booth considers what conclusions, if any, can be drawn from England’s Twenty20 win against New Zealand on Tuesday.
Jack Simmons, the new ECB chairman, makes his feelings clear on Kolpaks in county cricket, as analysed by David Hopps in the same paper.