I say that, about change, because I have been so disappointed with a lot of the nonsense that has been written about the IPL, especially overseas, where the colour of Indian money seems necessarily bad. I have not read one word of appreciation at the fact that India is offering an outlet to cricketers from the rest of the world; giving them an opportunity to make a living doing something, maybe the only thing, they are good at. On Cricinfo, one of my favourite writers, Amit Varma, has produced an excellent article on the IPL and if that doesn’t open people’s eyes, nothing will.

What Amit’s article also does is to point out that the best cricket writing seems to come from those beyond the boundary. The most consistently stimulating articles seem to come from Rohit Brijnath, Prem Panicker and Amit Varma rather than from the by-lines I am forced to see in the newspapers; by-lines that have wickets and runs behind them but, except from a very few, little thought or insight.

Maybe we need to challenge previously held theories on the residence of wisdom.