Gladiators Kill Off the Staid Days of Cricket
Evening Standard - London › September 14, 2005
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AS I write this it is a beautiful London morning.
The air is warm but heavy with moisture and the rosehips are catching the sun which is only just clearing the houses in the next street. The garden is blowsy, it's living on borrowed time. It's not quite autumn yet, but the season of mellow fruitfulness is not far away. And the feeling I have is a slight seasonal melancholy, a sort of low level ache, both because I have devoted far too much time to watching cricket now that I am licensed to do so, and because sport has a cyclical nature, like the seasons and - try not to sneer just yet - like life.See the full content of this document
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Gladiators Kill Off the Staid Days of Cricket
For this Ashes series has made some heroes, and it has lost some.
Seeing Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne leaving The Oval together, aware that their time is nearly up, hearing Richie Benaud give his last commentary in England, seeing the unstoppable rise of Kevin Pietersen, watching the relative misery of Ian Bel...See the full content of this document
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