I have changed my mind about limited over cricket. When this slash and burn form of the game began to emerge prominently I was accustomed to dismiss it as a superficial and corrupt version of 
the great game. Here is one example of how I expressed my distaste:
“I regret, if not exactly deplore, the cancerous growth of the shorter versions of the great game. They should not be dignified with the name of cricket. Licket and lashet may be appropriate for One-day and Twenty/20 contests – both sports in the sense of a good fete. Licket and lashet can be very exciting. But that is the point – all, at best, they can be is exciting. They do not have the scope to be anything other or more than that. The whole essence of the thing is a nail-biting finish and if there isn’t one the proceedings lack any interest. When these games become a foregone conclusion, which they often do, there is absolutely nothing more boring in the whole of sport. Real cricket is quite different. It provides much more varied and subtle passages of interest and pleasure. Even within a drawn game there may be treasures of batting and bowling as well as subsidiary dramas and crises which give considerable and lasting satisfaction.