The Germans in Paris have taken over Match and publish it as an ersatz called La Semaine.
They have played much the smarter cricket in the three 50-over matches so far and made a nonsense of Pakistan's six successive series wins.
His support for Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket, a breakaway league with limited-over matches, did much to get it off the ground in 1977.
It is a similar story in the 14-man squad named for the first three of the five 50-over matches.
This is why it is so important and desirable that the counties should be reverting to 50-over matches next season.
Members, fans, players and commercial partners will have less Championship cricket, fewer 50-over matches and, for as long as it lasts, a second-rate T20 competition.
Gillespie returned to clean up the tail and finished with four for seven, the best figures in the short lifespan of international 20-over matches.
"We've been here before," he says of the anguish trailing England's 5-0 drubbing and losing all but one of eight limited-over matches against Australia.
Robson and Trott will drop out of the squad for the five 50-over matches against South Africa A that follow the four-day matches with Samit Patel among the three coming in.
It's being vulgarised into a circus, say devotees of the five-day Test match, by attempts to win audiences with one-day, limited-over matches, where each side bats for a mere 50 or even 20 overs, rather than until all its batsmen are gone.
James Taylor and Jonny Bairstow have gone home, their places having been taken by James Vince and Stephen Parry, but the team for the first match is likely to be very similar to the one that played in all the 50-over matches.
