India, March 8 -- I' ve long held that sitting behind deep mid-wicket (and its mirror image, deep extra cover) is the best way to watch cricket. You may not get a front-on view of the wickets, but no matter which end the bowler is charging in from, you sense the speed of the run-up, capture the leap of the delivery stride, and see the opening of the shoulders as the ball is hurled down the pitch. You then get to mark the arc of the bat as it comes down to meet the delivery, the opening of the face of the blade as it caresses the ball through the off-side or the adjustment of the hips as the bat-face closes to whip the ball through the on-side. This, for me, is cricket in both its most leisurely and most ebullient forms. As a young sports jo...