The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

You can’t see cricket on free-toair TV, certainly not live cricket. Some have argued that this is a root cause of the lack of interest in the game among the younger generation, but it is contentious whether this matters. The fact that youngsters can name wrestlers rather more readily than they can name cricketers seems slightly irrelevant, as wrestling is not on free-to-air TV either. And television is of rather less interest to the young than it was: there’s plenty of cricket on YouTube ...