I see that once again there is another Twenty/20 tournament taking place in South Africa. I really do think that cricket is somewhat saturated, with events and tournaments taking place all day long, every second month, and it must be very hard to keep marketing a product where it does not have that a limited aspect to it – it is not the one day game between Australia and South Africa that you wait a year or two before it takes place in your country again. I wonder if that does not have something to do with the SABC deciding not to cover cricket anymore – I just don’t think there is such a demand for it in any event, in the first place, anymore.

The other side of the coin is that hardly a week goes by without a new betting scandal, and you are now left wondering, when you watch cricket on TV, if a no ball was bowled, because a bet has already been laid on that no ball being hit or if a run-out takes place in a certain over, because some illegal bets have been laid to that effect.