Longest form of the game returns in England on Wednesday with the sport looking very different but with an opportunity to make some noise despite the silence
Great news out of South Africa: 3 Team Cricket, the newest format of the game in which three teams play each other simultaneously, finally has a launch date. The inaugural 3TC event – featuring eight-man sides captained by AB de Villiers, Kagiso Rabada and Quinton de Kock – will be held at Pretoria’s SuperSport Park on 18 July.
“I can’t think of a more appropriate day on which to hold this game than Nelson Mandela Day,” said Jacques Faul, chief executive of Cricket South Africa. And indeed, it’s possible this is exactly the utopian vision that sustained Mandela through his long years of incarceration: an end to apartheid, a free and democratic society, a novelty gamewhen three teams take it in turns to bowl against each other in six-over segments.
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