Twenty20’s inconvenient stat
Amid the sea of quite triumphant-sounding figures trotted out at Cricket Australia’s AGM for 2012, one statistic stood out a little inconveniently next to the narrative the game’s custodians would like to build for their preferred balance of its three formats.
In accepting Test cricket as the primary measure for the performance of Australia’s national team, pressing ODIs as the format of the 2015 World Cup to be shared by Australia and New Zealand, and spruiking Twenty20 as the avenue for new audiences via the Big Bash League, CA is hopeful it is covering as much ground as possible.
While…
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