Twenty20 for plenty
Judhajit
25-Feb-2013
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The spells for New Zealand players under the Indian Twenty20 sun will do wonders for their cricket by letting them blast away shoulder to shoulder with the game's superstars, and help them come to grips with playing in the subcontinent. But the action-starved crowds in New Zealand have every right to ask if they are getting a good deal, and if what many of them still consider the real game is being tainted by the Twenty20 craze. Chris Rattue in the New Zealand Herald has more.
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Paul Holden in his blog Sideline Slogger presents the second part of the 2008 Miscellaneous Cricket Awards. If you haven't, read the first part here.