What do they know of Cricket?
England’s Cricket World Cup has MARK PERRYMAN hunting out his favourite CLR James quote to make sense of it all

CRICKET’S version of the “years of hurt,” 44 in this case, came to a spectacular end early last Sunday evening.
Thrilling, eventful and glorious, no wonder the front pages the following morning were full of it. The subeditor who came up with the headline “Champagne Super Over” is surely in line for a hefty bonus.
For a certain version of miserablist leftism all this amounts to is a concocted nationalistic distraction from more important matters at hand.
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