Yes, I went to the lavishly staged ICC Cricket Matters conference in Mumbai so that you didn’t have to.
In fact the app was more of a cover story, prepared earlier this week just in case I had to make emergency small talk with high-flying sports-media powerbrokers. Staring at a phone, which is pointed at a screen, while a voice says Canadian Hyper-Smash. Thanks to face recognition and real-time data Point&Crick will give you all the key stats and memes, will tell you who to support, how you should feel and what products you can buy to reinforce these emotions. But what is this exactly? And is that Wayne Parnell? It is emotionally and culturally wired into my brain.
How many times have you switched on your screen to find a figure in a vibrant nylon shirt unfurling a field-splitting leg-side wangle while the commentator who just shouts “wow”, and thought to yourself: yes, I like cricket.
