Will T20 cricket mutate or stagnate? Either way it should be fun finding out | Jonathan Liew
As the shorter format globalises ever further there are two competing visions of what cricket’s future might look likeNot long after the second world war, in an attempt to discover more humane and peaceable functions for the frightening new toy of atomic power, the US government adopted a policy of deliberately radiating fruit. At the Brookhaven National Laboratory ion Long Island, New York, scientists built something called a “gamma garden”, where various fruits and other plants were arranged in concentric circles and zapped with radioactive cobalt-60. The hope was that the new mutant food might be bigger, tastier, more resilient, perhaps even eradicate world hunger and prevent another war.As it turned out, the results were mixed. The crops closest to...