If cricket is a religion in many parts of the world, then T20 is its missionary spreading the gospel to newer lands.
Starting Saturday, the big boys of world cricket will get the main event underway after an opening act that, by and large, went unnoticed. Many purists might be tempted to describe the T20 World Cup as the lesser World Cup. But a realist would know this, inevitably, is the future.
For all barbs flung at it, T20 is turning out to be cricket’s best vehicle, perhaps the only one, to shatter the image of being a mere Commonwealth legacy. From America to Afghanistan to Brazil, Thailand and even Germany, T20 has taken cricket to previously unexplored countries, to a point that the sport is now able to make a genuine claim to be at the Olympics.
On Thursday, around the time when Scotland, for the first time, made it into the main rounds of the T20 World Cup, football…
