THE POPULARITY OF CRICKET SINCE TEST MATCHES WERE TAKEN OFF TERRESTRIAL TV

I don't live in Islington and am not in the Mejia but I can inform you that Test Match Cricket in London is very much alive and kicking. £100 a ticket and £7.10 for a pint and The Oval and Lords are always full.

I take your point though!

Inja are now the power brokers and have learned from their former masters about strength, power and money and also how to humiliate. Even Australia will struggle to compete with England and India.

I cannot tell you how excited I was to see this SA fast bowling quartet. Up their like I said before with The Fire in Babylon and Imran, Wasim and The Waquar!

New Zealand have a very good attack who played sheite this spring, India similarly.

I hope some smart accountant realises the potential of SA, NZ and even WI to give it to the Big Boys. SL too sometimes have something. Cricket is the Game of Empire. We need them all and a level, well a leveller playing field! Give them money for pitches ( groundsmen ), grounds, coaches, salaries for their elite and academies. There is plenty of money. Like in life we have lost the sense to realise by spreading it around the many we will all benefit.