Sunday, 27 May 2018

The only surprise about his two centuries on a farewell first-class trip to Lord's was that he needed a bridge to cross the river

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It was Sangakkara, though, who spectators came to watch, and the authority and precision of his strokeplay were much admired, not least by f...
Tuesday, 22 May 2018

The system that specialised in preventing you

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'In Erfurt, I became radicalised against the system. The system that specialised in preventing you. Preventing you full stop.' I ...
Tuesday, 15 May 2018

Never mind 2015: this could have been 1895

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You might describe it as a series of its time - cricket for the attention-deprived, 140-character age. And yet there was something queerly ...

This was a duty, an obligation, the right thing to do.

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Perhaps nothing summed him up better than the last of the several pieces he wrote for Wisden : a tribute to his friend and hero Keith Miller...
Monday, 14 May 2018

This was touching, but not a policy found in most textbooks on sporting governance

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Tendulkar's 200th test should have been in Cape Town, but politics and money put paid to that: the BCCI wanted to bloody the nose of CS...
Sunday, 13 May 2018

And then the batting, and batting, and more beautiful batting

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The rest is an Indian fairytale: Laxman the last man out in the first innings for a dashing 59, asked to keep his pads on by his captain an...
Saturday, 12 May 2018

Once upon a time, Amla would have been the player required to leave his homeland

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Once upon a time, Amla would have been the player required to leave his homeland to realise his potential and live out his dreams. It would...