If Duckworth & Lewis Didn't Exist -

would the gods have had to invent them?

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was the stately game of five day test cricket, and teams would spend three months travelling to play an international series of five or six such games.

Back at home there were regular three day matches as a form of rehearsal, and that was it.

And then people began to think their lives were too busy to take their leisure pursuits so slowly, and the game of fifty overs that could be played in a single day was introduced.

Nwdys v crse ppl r 2 bsy 4 sch wste v thr tme + hv nvntd twnty20 crkt. + wt wthr is gud bcos thn u cn jst ply twnty10 or lss nd sve all tht tme.

Of course if the match this evening had ended a different way, this post might have had quite a different slant!