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Possible Reasons for the Changes in Cricket in Recent Times...

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
Global warming has reduced the amount of rain, hence there are more results.

Your turn.
 
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vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
Increased amounts of carbohydrates in players' diets has seen flatulence increase on the ground, hence why silly point and short leg are further away from the batsman than what they used to be.
 

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
Test wickets are flatter because the rollers are bigger.
More Tests are played to take the emphasis off exams.
 

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Power plays have been inroduced by Sharad Powar's pawns in his grand scheme of things to take over cricket eventually.
 

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
Increased amounts of carbohydrates in players' diets has seen flatulence increase on the ground, hence why silly point and short leg are further away from the batsman than what they used to be.
Oh, and you wondered why they call it "the popping crease".
 

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Decline of bowler quality due to lack of facial hair on bowlers
It's the female hormones in the meat & the water: with a few exceptions our milksop bowlers can't muster up a Lilleesque Zapata/chops combo nowadays.

Ingestion of tartrazine at an early age has also given us a generation of hyperactive batsmen who don't have the patience to construct innings anymore and tee-off from the word go.
 

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