•Jonty Rhodes?

Well, I was thinking of before, I was thinking of Bland.

•Colin Bland, yes.

Bland, a beautiful fielder, and then Jonty Rhodes later. And now they all do. Everybody is a Jonty Rhodes. Unbelievable.

•And they catch them.

But they are hitting the ball harder too. It's still a great game.

•And the bats are getting better.

Oh yes! The whole process is getting better. It still balances out because if you catch that wonderful catch it balances out.

•In fact you wrote in your blog before you came here that you want to see a Twenty20 match. And I saw you in the one last weekend. But it wasn't a very good match because of the rains.

One of the weaknesses is that if you play for 11 overs and you get three more, the team that follows afterwards has such an advantage.

•I can see already that you are sympathising with Delhi.

Yeah! Well, I would have sympathised with whoever batted first. You can't know the game is going to be 13 overs. If you knew the game was going to be 13 overs with 10 batsmen you would play a very different game. So despite Duckworth-Lewis being as fair as can be, it is not fair on the first side.

•I can see that even though you say don't like the Twenty20 game so much, you are quite passionate talking about it.

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