On today's episode of The Almanack Report, coming out of the two years of Covid, cricket has managed to survive reasonably well, but it looks as though now the world bodies are looking for a way to recoup all of their monetary losses, and that revolves around the bastardised form of the game, T20 cricket. And the danger of over-proliferation of this less-cricket part of the sport is already well at hand, and is a threat to everything I love about the game. India has signalled its intention of asking for an extended window for its IPL tournament. England's The Hundred has already messed with the T20 format, and now we have the West Indies version of the 10 over a side game, The 6ixty. And in Australia, we are now going to have a draft introduced for international players wanting to play in the BBL.

Is any of this, and I do mean ANY, good for the sport as a whole? Is it what the spectator wants? And perhaps just as importantly, is there any room left in the annual calendar for anything but these shortened forms of the game?

That's today's agenda on The Almanack Report, right here on Thoughts From the Metal Cavern.