Siddhartha Vaidyanathan on Cricinfo:

“Cricket has become way too much fun. It needs to find its serious streak again. It needs to get us nervous, make us sulk, lose our temper. It needs to make us mull over moments, staring at the ceiling and wondering how a batsman of such talent couldn’t average beyond 37.83.

We need to chew our nails at work, nervously hoping for our favourite player to win the game for our team. And we need our mothers, girlfriends and wives to think we’re absurd creatures obsessed with a silly game. We need to be turned into geeks again.

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