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Clash: Mike Gatting and Shakoor Rana in 1987 are proof that that hot-headedness is nothing new in cricket
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Alot of things change with time. We learn from mistakes, we develop, technology improves. This applies to sport too: fitness techniques evolve, new shots are learned and bowlers expand their repertoire.
Evolution is not necessarily always positive, however. We learn which rules are stringently enforced and those that are not. We learn what behaviour or actions we can get away with. And now that we have three different formats demanding dif...