At Culture11, Michael Brendan Dougherty has a fine piece on how the people who run sports are more interested in catering to people who don’t like sport than for those who, like, actually do. He’s writing about the modern baseball experience but everything he says also, of course, applies to cricket. Especially Twenty20 cricket:
Rugby union is trying something similar, mind you, what with all these new “experimental” laws that are designed to turn the game into some tedious facsimile of rugby league just so a few more Australians can be persuaded to follow the sport. Never mind the millions of people who like the game as it is and see no need for change. Of course, liking the game as it is means you’re part of the problem. People who have no interest in the sport are the future and the solution my friends…
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