Cricket in the time of coronavirus could amount to a full-blown revolution in the gentleman’s game. Would silly-point have to maintain a healthy distance?
Will the twelfth man carry sanitizers to the field? Much is to be settled. Cricket’s a crazy game with so many variables, codes and rituals.
Every time it’s caught in a swirl of change, it assumes a new avatar and its diehard fans swear by those tenets. So, as scoffers ask whether we’ll survive the coronavirus scare and the upheavals that have followed, our implacable faith in the innate charm of cricket prompts us to say, “A cloudburst doesn’t last all day." The game even stumped Alice of the fairy tale.