Catchword: 20:20 cricket

Filed under: English, Sports & Recreation

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: Alert to the gentle decline of the game in an accelerated world of shortened attention spans, authorities have innovated with a new, ultra-short format of the game complete with colored clothing, rock anthems to announce new batters, and a beer-and-hot-dog feel that is akin to baseball.…Yet if 20:20 cricket, as it is known, has brought in the casual fan, remarkably it has been the drawn-out five-day game that has them salivating.

Article or document title:
“Cricket makes a comeback in Britain” (URL)

Author:
Mark Rice-Oxley

Article, document, publication, web site:
Christian Science Monitor

Publishing location:
Boston, Mass.

Date of publication:
Aug. 25, 2005

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