By Jon Batham
With the 2024 IPL resembling baseball more and more by the day, and scores going through the roof, there’s never been a better time for batters to ditch the traditional whites and join the pyjama brigade.
Notable figures like Dawid Malan are among those to have succumbed to the temptation of white-ball only contracts and Middlesex’s Max Holden faced a similar dilemma. The left-hander had been without a first-class hundred for six years before his 211* against Northamptonshire, a score backed up with 111 against Gloucestershire last week.
By contrast, his white-ball stock was ris...