Lessons from a great Antiguan Drama

Test match cricket is something else, isn’t it? Patrick Kidd has a splendid line making the point that test cricket is terrific because it is “a game in which it is much more exciting when something almost happens than when it happens all the time.” Granted, cricket’s detractors might cite this as evidence to support their prejudices, but who cares about them? Kidd is right.

This was a great test match, conjured from the most unlikely circumstances. Full credit to the groundstaff at the ARG and, of course, to both teams who produced a match that vindicated the idea and reality of test cricket even as one of its greatest enemies – Sir Allen Stanford – was being pursued by the FBI. If you believe in karma, this makes sense, doesn’t it?

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The end of the Church of England

The saddest aspect of the way cricket is run these days is that those in charge of administering the game have such little confidence in test cricket.