Loud Thinking November 03, 2013 at 11:57AM

60 meters boundaries have made the game of international cricket a mockery

Wake up ICC before people become disenchanted with this glorious game

An excerpt given below from a news item published by the daily “The Nation”, exposes the worth of cricket records, which are formed on various grounds, having different boundary sizes ranging from 60 to 90 meters. We must not forget that games like football, hockey, tennis and badminton etc are not played on different size fields. If the playing areas are not standardised how can anyone claim that he has created a world record.

“India hit 19 sixes in a ground having 60 metre boundaries as they racked up 383; Australia replied with 326, the ninth time in 11 innings that a team passed 300 this series. And though they lost by a sizeable margin in the end, they did not lose the six-hitting contest. Australia’s 19 blows over the Chinnaswamy Stadium’s tiny boundaries helped smash the record for the most sixes in a one-day international. India and New Zealand had hit 31 in Christchurch in 2009; India and Australia hit a numbing 38 today. Vinay Kumar’s 1 for 102 in nine overs were the worst figures by an Indian in an ODI; two Australians were close to owning the record for the quickest 50 by an Australian, and James Faulkner’s 57-ball 100 was his country’s fastest century. It was hard to make sense of it all.”

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