As Rob Smyth has argued on this blog, Owais Shah has had a rough deal from England. So it has been fascinating seeing him go about his business for the Delhi Daredevils.

In Delhi he is a star – an unarguable hero to the locals. He’s not as big a name as Sehwag, Karthik or McGrath but they still love him. And, like any normal person, that makes him feel relaxed and happy.

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The scoreboard at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in Delhi is almost as watchable as the cricket – and certainly more entertaining than that slow-low pitch.

It is a huge, old-fashioned thing that looms halfway up the side of the imposing north stand. All the players’ names are painted in white on big metal strips in a quazi-batting order – if someone moves up or down the order, chaos reigns – with the basic match information buried somewhere in the middle. There is sense there, it just took four Twenty20 games to work it out.

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