Random Cricket Thoughts

This blog is about the sport of cricket. I'm Alan, a Californian now living in France, so my perspective on cricket is a bit unique.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Lights Out

I propose a new rule for limited-overs cricket: "offering the light" now means offering to turn on the lights. I didn't have the opportunity to watch any of today's One-Dayer between England and India, but apparently nobody got to see the the exciting conclusion of it for a reason which seems very silly: bad light.

How can we have day-night matches in this format and yet stop an interesting match in its tracks because of bad light? They did not bother to turn on the lights. If its fair to have one side bat in the sunlight and another bat at night under the lights, then why is it unfair to make a side finish its innings under the lights while there's still a bit of sunlight left?

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