The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

Forget it: T20 just doesn’t have the same pull in England

Well, it’s happened. This year’s IPL auction has marked the point when the IPL has definitely become the biggest cricket event on the planet – just see how much of this paper the auction and its fallout took up last week.
Nobody hangs back any longer. Though politics keeps Pakistanis out, we have the first player from Nepal this year, and Afghans are no longer a surprise.
Furthermore, we have a rush this year for English players, ev...