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Test cricket, in a whole new light

November 9, 2012
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Do you like the idea of day/night test cricket, under floodlights? The concept is now firmly on the agenda again, after the ICC last week announced the latest changes to its playing conditions. They included, for the first time, a clause which allows countries to schedule day/night tests. From an official point of view, it’s…

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The latest nonsense from the MCC

June 28, 2012
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Many MCC members are reported to be in a fury over the admission of ordinary cricket fans to the ground which they claim to be the home of the game. As the Daily Mail report today, there are calls to ban the ‘great unwashed’: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2165561/Kick-Great-Unwashed-MCC-members-plea-hallowed-Lords-Pavilion-invaded-Twenty20-cricket-fans.html If you’re interested in this kind of thing, take a…

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MCC: the greatest anachronism of English cricket

March 16, 2012
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MCC: the greatest anachronism of English cricket

There’s been an outbreak of egg-and-bacon-striped handbags at dawn. Sir John Major’s resignation from the Main Committee of the MCC, in a row about redevelopment plans at Lord’s, has triggered a furious war of words in St John’s Wood. Put simply, the former prime minister took umbrage at the process by which the MCC decided…

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