The Spin | Schrödinger’s six, tiny boundaries and the hollow spectacle of ghost-town T10 cricket

The Guardian

‘It doesn’t look like proper cricket,’ says Faf du Plessis as Canada’s Super60 tournament raises a few eyebrows Have you heard about Schrödinger’s six? When a cricket ball has spawned off the edge of the bat and flown all of 35 metres, is that really a six at all? How about when it comes in a hulking yet virtually empty 50,000-seater stadium in Canada, the ball smashed into the empty stands and kerplunking down the vast swathes of unpopulated seats to be retrieved by a clinically unbothered fielder? You might have seen some of the footage from Canada’s “Super60” T10 tournament in Vancouver…