Ready or not, here comes the SA20

“It’s very difficult for me to not come across like I’m bad-mouthing the ILT20, but I do feel it’s a league that is not good for the game.” – Graeme Smith

Telford Vice / Cape Town

A cricket ground in repose after a high-profile match is a magical place. Echoes and shadows of events there in the preceding hours and days hang in the quieted air, and a special peace settles between the suddenly animated sprinklers. Newlands wasn’t like that on Monday afternoon.

It should have been. At 5....