Coach John Wright’s quest for change

Coach John Wright is leading the charge for change.

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14th April, 2012

An American visiting London is taken to Lord’s where a cricket test is in progress. After the rules have been explained to him, he says incredulously, “So, they play for five days and still mightn’t get a result?” The apocryphal American is one of many who have tried to nail the apparent absurdity of a game that can end in stalemate after days of endeavour. The prize belongs to conservative politician Lord Mancroft, who wrote that cricket “is a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity”. Although ...

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