The editor of Cricket Statisticiananalyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

So the English cricket season begins. In the first round of “MCC University matches” two saw no play at all and three were abandoned after only one day.
It is cold and it is damp, and the weather needs to pick up before the start of the County Championship.
I have a book on Indian cricket which insists that the game must have been invented in India because the climate in England is so unsuitable for the game. Sometimes you can see what it means.
The game must have begun in long summer evenings (of which t...