• Cricket has lost the role it had in 1939 but it's still far more than a game | Kevin Mitchell

    Cricket has lost the role it had in 1939 but it's still far more than a game | Kevin Mitchell
    For those of us waiting for old certainties to waft again on the summer breeze, there is almost certain disappointment. So we must rely on sporting nostalgiaSport means nothing if it is not about passion and connection and nowhere is that more sharply defined than in football, as we have witnessed since coronavirus ripped it from our lives in recent weeks and days. Once, though, it was cricket, the summer game, deeper in history, richer in symbolism, that held the national sentiment in its gentl

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