The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

In about 1962 cricket changed. As Philip Larkin said about something else, somewhere between the Lady Chatterley trial and the Beatles’ first LP (pausing to bear in mind DH Lawrence’s book is now available on Kindle for 99p and the album, apparently consigned to the dustbin of history, has now returned).
Amateur status was abolished (shortly after the recommendation of the committee set up to look at it recommended that it be continued), and one-day cricket at first-class level began in ...