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Battle lines

No sooner had Ashes 2023 ended that Nasser Hussain said next year’s five-match India-England Test series, starting in January, would…

Paradise lost

Given the intellectual vacuity Twenty20 tournaments exist in, you would not really be surprised if anyone inside the bubble said Margaret Thatcher was “the other woman” in King Alfred’s life. But the assumption that cricket before it was slow as a snail probably calls for contradiction.

Subversion unlimited

The central problem - when you leave money out of the reckoning - is that the game's evolutionary clock was turned rudely back when, nearly a century after it had found its apogee in Test matches, a World Cup of 60-over games was begun in 1975.