To suggest that this year’s Indian Premier League has been one in which bat has held the edge over ball would be like pointing out that the Wright Brothers had a little more joy than Icarus when it came to taking flight.
There has been not so much a generous flow of runs as a flood: eight of the franchise competition’s 10 highest-ever totals set in the last month-and-a-bit. Too much of a good thing, almost certainly, and too little balance, for sure.
