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...Americans who've heard of it, cricket conjures up images of fastidious Englishmen in white outfits who scarcely break a sweat during "test" matches that stretch over five days--with regular breaks for tea! But the newest format of the game, known as Twenty20, is shorter than a Major League Baseball game, as fiercely contested as a National Hockey League match and between teams dressed more colorfully than the Los Angeles Lakers. For the spectators, there is rousing music between plays ... and cheerleaders...
...vehicle is the new and helter-skelter Twenty20. For those not enamored of cricket, the game comes in three forms: stupefying (the traditional Test match, which can last five days and still not produce a result); slightly less stupefying (one-day cricket, in which scoring rates are quicker and matches continue into the night); and passably exciting (Twenty20, in which batsmen are pretty much obliged to try to belt every ball out of the park). An odd thing about the IPL is that, until recently, Indians didn't much like Twenty20 and were leading the way in trying to jazz...
...matches will be Twenty20, the newest, most helter-skelter and meaningless form of the game. There's a place for Twenty20 on the cricket calendar. A lot of people love it, which is one reason cricket authorities have resisted giving them too much of it. For 130 years, the pinnacle of cricket has been the Test match, a five-day examination of skill and nerve. It can be dull at times: even after 30 hours' play the result is occasionally a draw. But it's cricket's best and brightest jewel. Since the 1970s, the sport's guardians have...