{"id":11649,"date":"2017-10-20T15:51:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/20\/cricket-is-rotting-away-everything-worthwhile-is-being-destroyed\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:51:45","slug":"cricket-is-rotting-away-everything-worthwhile-is-being-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=11649","title":{"rendered":"Cricket is rotting away. Everything worthwhile is being destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The authorities are ruining so much of the game many love \u2013 even the Test rankings I helped devise \u2013 as they concentrate on T20 money and powerThirty years ago, when he was newly retired as a player and before he was canonised (if not yet knighted) for his performances as a jolly old card on Test Match Special, Geoffrey Boycott appeared on the Radio 4 programme In the Psychiatrist\u2019s Chair.The interviewer, Dr Anthony Clare, casually mentioned that cricket was a team game. Boycott denied it. \u201cNo, it\u2019s 11 individuals as a team.\u201d What a giveaway, thought the massed ranks of cricket-loving, Radio 4-listening, amateur psychiatrists. Boycott had finally admitted what his contemporaries always claimed: that he played for himself. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/blog\/2017\/oct\/20\/cricket-is-rotting-destroyed-icc-ecb-t20-test-matches\" target=\"_blank\">Cricket is rotting away. Everything worthwhile is being destroyed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authorities are ruining so much of the game many love \u2013 even the Test rankings I helped devise \u2013 as they concentrate on T20 money and powerThirty years ago, when he was newly retired as a player and before he was canonised (if not yet knighted) for his performances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}