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The Glorious Boredom Of Test Cricket
The Glorious Boredom Of Test Cricket
Partha Sinha
Jul 18, 2025, 20:38 IST IST
The ongoing India-England series is a quiet resurrection of the classical form of the game
There was a time, not too long ago, when cricket started to resemble a badly dubbed action film. Overloaded with explosions, starved of script. The game got faster, louder, and somehow emptier. In trying to make cricket more 'watchable', we quietly removed the cricket from cricket.
T20 was the gateway drug. IPL was the overdose. What remained was a sport that dressed like cricket but talked like TikTok. Bollywood's mascara on baseball's pace. Everything became a number. Strike rates, economy rates, impact scores. If you couldn't clear the ropes every five balls, you were baggage. Bowlers were reduced to radar guns. And fielding? That became LinkedIn with turf burns. Dives done more for the CV than the scoreboard.
