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Those who believe cricket is only entertaining when batsmen are having fun, please look away now.
Not all sixes are created equal.
A shot that gets spilled by a middle-aged worker having a drink? That should be a six.
A shot that lands near a kid who, wisely, won’t try to catch it? That should be a six.
A mishit that just clears the advertising padding stuff that signifies a boundary, before bouncing once or more on its path to the fence?
Uh, no.
Unless of course, the padded advertising that’s used to signify a boundary is to become ten metres higher than good old-fashioned rope, or if all outfielders are to be made the same height as Mitchell Starc standing on Mitchell Starc’s shoulders and bouncing on a trampoline.
What does the game of cricket want the six to mean? Does cricket want mistimed and lucky slogs that never look like clearing the fence but just make it over the padded stuff to be worth the same as a clean hit that ends up halfway up a tall stand over a decent distance?
What about mandating that every six that doesn’t make it to the fence should be signalled as a five, particularly for white-ball cricket?
At the very least, it might help save lesser skilled bowlers who have to bowl in the death overs from having figures that look like something a dog had ripped apart with its teeth.
The hitting’s got better. So if cricket doesn’t want to do something to prevent that, at least make the reward a little harder to obtain.
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