Is one-day cricket good or bad for the game?
You can’t turn the clock back. In many ways it’s very good. My personal view is that most one-day games are not interesting as most Test matches. Kandy was a classic example, with Sri Lanka bowled out cheaply in the first innings. In a one-day game England would have won it, but Sri Lanka won the Test match because you have that wonderful capacity of cricket to turn on its head with a couple of great performances. What was your most frustrating day as a cricket journalist? Definitely the Test match that was called off after a few overs in Sabina Park, Jamaica. That was simply technology. I had a terrific story – a Test match had never been abandoned after half an hour. The pitch was ruled dangerous. Match referee Barry Jarman said the match had got to stop as the pitch was not fit for Test cricket and people were getting hit. There was a story, a big front page piece, and a big back page piece, and I lost the whole lot sending it. It just disappeared. To this day I don’t know how. Then
