Independent (UK): Is there a game for autumn, as cricket is the game for summer? I ask this because at the weekend I saw football played on the most exquisite autumn day, which was a great pleasure, and yet I felt the two experiences (the seasonal weather and the football) were somehow separate, whereas in cricket they would be conjoined. Cricket proclaims summer (as butterflies do) because it needs sunshine (as butterflies do). Consider: you don’t play cricket in rain, hail, snow, fog, frost or even …