The Summer Field

191 generation that preferred T20. Sutton, born in 1976, said: ‘Certainly in the dressing rooms I shared, one day cricket was important, definitely, but the real kudos was in championship cricket and Test cricket.’ Sutton singled out Graham Gooch’s 333 for England against India in 1990, that he watched; Will Jefferson, three years younger than Sutton, saw the first day of Gooch’s innings, taken (with scorebook) to Lord’s by his father Richard; the next day the ten-year-old carried on scoring the triple century off the BBC2 television channel. ‘But I have to say the game has changed,’ Luke Sutton said. ‘I don’t know if they [younger players than him] have the same viewpoint. You wonder if they have their eyes on T20 and the IPL [Indian Premier League]. T20 is a show.’ Will Jefferson felt much the same: ‘All sorts of avenues are going to be open for young players.’ He too meant T20 tournaments in other countries. England was no longer the only market, or even the most important. Modern Changes