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World Twenty20 sets a new benchmark

With big crowds, record ratings and superb matches the last two weeks have made us fall back in love with cricket

As befits a game where the importance of every scrambled single, every dropped catch and every dot ball is magnified, the players within the boundary rope were not the only ones feeling the pressure as the ICC World Twenty20 Cup began inauspiciously almost a fortnight ago. When drizzle came down at Lord's, Alesha Dixon put away her microphone and the opening ceremony was cancelled, the doom mongers who predicted the tournament would fail to catch the public imagination were sharpening their pencils.