By Arhama Siddiqa Published: February 9, 2019 0 SHARES Share Tweet Email With all the hype about the #10yearchallenge going around, I decided to compare cricket in 2019 with that of the previous century. Cricket is known as the gentleman’s game, and what else could it be, given all the symbols and standards that distinguish it from all other sports? The signature leather ball, the chiselled bats, the pads, and of course, the helmet with grills! For me, sitting in my father’s lap, watching cricket matches, echoing his every applause (and occasional profanities every time a home wicket fell) was my earliest memory of the sport. Though I fell in love with the international version of the game a bit later – after a fair amount of investment in both English and Urdu versions of The Cricketer Magazine – I believe no 90s kid in Pakistan has grown up without holding a bat and the iconic tape ball in their hands. I vividly remember batting in the streets of Bagh Sardaran, Rawalpindi with a chair behind me serving as stumps and the electricity post in the near distance signalling the boundary. The parental call ordering us kids to wrap up and…