Sixes

Has anyone worked out what the DLF sixes tournament is about yet? Wickman began by thinking it was a league. Didn’t Fudgey have a Wick sixes league last year? Then rather than simply numbers (you’d have to be backing McCullum after day one) he then got confused by Ravi Shastri or some other hysterical commentating loon banging on about distance. And then yet some other loon seemed to think that there would be some sort of judging thing going on for the best six. Now that would be a strange one. How do you win? Height and length? Length? Sheer brutality? The perfect slog sweep? Footwork? Bat weight divided by distance? What if you larruped it off Brett Lee bowling at 99mph? Surely that’s got to be better than nailing a Danny Vetori short one out of the ground? DLF is an Indian building firm by the way. So if you have Indian construction needs...