The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

Questions: Jos Buttler

As Jos Buttler suggests that T20 may become cricket’s only format, we can ask how long should a game of cricket last?
It must have begun as a pastime for summer evenings, whether for shepherds in the Weald or homebased weavers in the Midlands, or small boys once they were released from their day’s labour or, later, their day’s schooling. Street cricket too might have no set duration, continuing until you broke a window or were chased off.
Eventually as organised games bega...