The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

Packed: County T20 cricket pulls the crowds in

Matthew Engel recently wrote a highly pessimistic article for The Guardian in which he suggested that the game of cricket is “rotting” and that part of this is the decline in weekend recreational cricket.
Sunday club cricket is (arguably) dying out, and he suggests that T20 may become the main – or even the only – format at this level, because people do not have enough time. T20 as the only format would of course mean the end of longer forms o...