Dear Editor,
Pakistan has just finished defeating Australia by a huge margin in the second of two test matches, the first of which Pakistan also dominated. Needless to say readers have not forgotten what India did to the West Indies in the last two test matches they played each other. In both cases the home team just wiped out the opposition. Months ago Sri Lanka did the same to Australia and WI did it to Bangladesh. I have written to the ICC for the statistics showing the ratio of home team-to-visitor wins since 2010, but, as you well know, cricket boards do not respond to communications from people who have no status in the cricket world.
The truth is that a little more willingness to think out of the box could do so much for this game that so many of us old coggers still love. For example, up to as late as the fifties or maybe even the early sixties teams travelled by boat for international tours, so naturally you couldn’t rush back home after a tour. In today`s jet-setting environment a West Indian team can fly to England or India, play 2 tests, 2 one-dayers and 2 T20`s and return to the West Indies with the English or Indian team and play the same number of games.
There are a lot of things we could do to generate more excitement and interest in the game if those tired old men will make way for new blood.
Yours faithfully,
Romain Pitt
