Balls constantly outside the offstump, treading a thin line between wide and legal, boring the batsman into playing an injudicious stroke. Not the cricket I used to watch.

Pads constantly out of the crease just crushing the spin before there is spin to crush, lulling the bowler into losing his rhythm. Not the cricket I used to watch.

I can live with the changes in technology. I can live with (but detest) the noisy sledging. I deplore the paucity of batsmen walking (though I am heartened occasionally). I deplore the appeals for nothing, and the number of occasions they get a result.

I want to see cricket where batsmen try to score and bowlers try to get batsmen out, real wars of attrition are fine but not the negative nonsense we see regularly.

Of course 20-20 cricket is an order of magnitude more vulgar than 50 over matches. This, I think, is one of its strengths. It is not pretending to be Test cricket lite. There is no compromise between entertainment and the subtle arts of the game – it is purely about entertainment.

It will develop its own language, and like any new language it will absorb words from other arenas that help to convey its particular requirements of meaning. If this is baseball then so be it.

1. It’s not possible for a batsman to play a long patient innings against the odds, as Atherton and Thorpe (for example) have done for England in Tests.
2. It’s not possible for a bowler to have a long, well-sustained spell. At Manchester in 1956 Lock and Laker bowled over 50 overs apiece.
3. It encourages defensive bowling at the expense of wicket taking.
4. It’s not possible for a side to gain an honourable draw.
5. The staging of the events is vulgar in the extreme, with ghastly music and dancing.
6. The crowd behaviour is distasteful, especially in some overseas countries. One-day matches are for people who know nothing about cricket.
7. The language of the one-day game is infiltrated with Americanisms like ‘pinch hitter’ and ‘power play’. If people want to play baseball, let them.
8. It encourages bad behaviour among the players more than Test cricket. Even newcomers like Tait are already mouthing obscenities at the opponents.
9. In many one-day matches, the result is inevitable long before the end.