Coming right after the IPL, the T20 World Cup shows how the game can change once the nature of the contest shifts from bat versus bat to bat versus ball.
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Heavy investment in franchises was the first step; the next is franchise owners demanding more playing windows at the expense of bilateral cricket
ICC chief Jay Shah's talks with England and Australia on two-tier Test cricket expose the growing rift between cricket's economic powerhouses and other nations fighting for the game's future.
Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting both passed the tests, played by the rules and won. And yet they were crucified by the society that reduced to black and white a question far more complicated and nuanced than standard binaries.