It’s as easy as breathing to accept that, for a viewer, multi-day cricket is the most unpredictable of all forms of cricket. It lets you relax, even slouch and yawn, and suddenly stir and gasp!
At the Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) stadium here on Sunday, a few impatient kids chanted ‘Wiiick-ate, Wiiick-ate’ even as early as half an hour after the start of first day of the Irani Cup 2023. They gamely kept at it, occasionally going off like cooker whistle.
They were adequately rewarded in the second session. With each wicket that Saurashtra took, there was glee.
