Leading Edge: Every purist should be thankful for the bastard formats

Sunday Times

TELFORD VICE, Johannesburg

The cricket season is dead. Long live the cricket season. What used to be the great game of summer has become a vehicle for whichever T20 tournament shakes, rattles and rolls from the 57 channels and nothing on that flicker from yonder television.

Which T20 tournament? Who knows. Who cares. It could be the Indian Premier League, the Bangladesh Premier League, the Caribbean Premier League, the Big Bash League or Peter Piper’s Pack of Pickled Peppers Premier...