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A general view of play as smoke from the pyrotechnics fills the air during The Hundred match at The Kia Oval, London
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HOW’S your week been? I mostly spent it watching cricket, the Hundred to be precise: 100 balls each, or 16.4 overs — although don’t mention that four letter word in this brave new world.
I was there to see first ever women’s and men’s games, between the Oval Invincibles and the Manchester Originals, on Wednesday and Thursday at the Oval.
It’s a new format finally launched after a tortuous three years in the making. For someone like myself, and many others, who prefer the longer forms of the game – Test cricket and county cricket – the Hundred is seen as a brash upstart that is simply not needed. Not when you have T20.
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A point apiece at the Emirates with both Arsenal and Palace looking distracted by forthcoming semi-finals
