Covering the pitch ended a particular kind of batting
Artificial turf took hockey away from the subcontinent
Three points for a win did less than we claim
Numbers on shirts were treated as an insult
Floodlights changed who was allowed to watch
The commentary that was invented from a telegraph wire
For decades an injured player just kept playing
Shirt sponsorship was fought by the broadcasters
The marathon distance is an accident nobody corrected
Princely patronage built Indian cricket and warped it
Seeding was invented to protect the box office
Amateurism was a rule about class, not purity
The back-pass law is the best rule ever written
The tie-break saved tennis from its own scoring
England banned women's football when it got popular
The retain and transfer system was simply ownership
