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They came, they played, they conquered!

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Updated on: 22 July,2023 06:20 PM IST  |  Mumbai
Srijanee Majumdar | srijanee.majumdar@mid-day.com

It has been 40 years, but we still find reasons to celebrate the image of Kapil Dev holding the trophy at Lord's, seared into our memories

They came, they played, they conquered!

Kapil Dev, MS Dhoni (Pic: AFP)

No, you certainly don't need numbers to tell you that cricket over the past few decades has grown multifold, became faster or even frenetic. Your intuition, if it has survived the whirlwind that was the advent of T20 cricket, the shock of the ‘Big Three’ takeover and the clear shift from cricket as a live spectator experience to a broadcast business, will tell you batters now score runs faster, that Tests finish in results other than draws more often, that India-England-Australia dominate the yearly fixtures, and cricketers play significantly more matches.

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