Between Wickets | Left-arm quick, right-arm quicker — it’s up to the coaches

For long it was assumed that in cricket there were just a few gaps to be filled

Is cricket dead? Not that it has become unpopular or that there is diminishing interest for it on television, but in a deeper, more creative sense. Has everything to be known about the game — the crafts, techniques, tactics, strategies — already been revealed, and can one say with conviction that there are no more worlds to conquer? Somehow that doesn’t sound right. No field of human endeavour can say there is nothing more to be done. At the turn of the 20th century, it was believed that physics was dead. As if on cue, quantum theory and relativity upset long-held ideas, and the field was blown wide open. It is a useful lesson.