The Spin | Gone in 11 seconds: how technology fixed cricket fixture headaches

Fifty years ago cricket began using computers to draw up fixtures, putting an end to manually tackling county demands“Arranged two months in advance of the old date, the annual meeting of county secretaries was held yesterday at Lord’s,” the Guardian reported, 95 years ago, “and in little more than an hour the programme for the season of 1926 was drawn up.”To be fair “the county lists had been arranged beforehand, the Australian fixtures were published long ag