What's not destroy'd by time's devouring hand?
An erstwhile editor of The Times , William Rees-Mogg, uses his opinion column to rail against what he sees may be the end of cricket:
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
An erstwhile editor of The Times, William Rees-Mogg, uses his opinion column to rail against what he sees may be the end of cricket:
The culture of cricket now seems to be going the way of Troy, or indeed of the Roman Empire. The glory of cricket, with its intelligence and the complexity of the interplay, is sinking into the past; we are moving, surprisingly rapidly, into the dumbed-down cricket of Twenty20. Cricket first developed on village greens such as Hambledon; it looks as though it may come to an end at Bangalore.