Cricket fans only want good a scorecard to pore over but that seems far away, two weeks into what should be the new season
The talk is of misconduct, match-fixing, potential bankruptcies and tour cancellations when after two weeks of blissful sunshine at the start of the season we expected to be discussing Jimmy’s rib, Jofra’s elbow, Jos in the IPL and Joe’s inability to consolidate an innings. (I was thinking of Denly but let’s toss in Root as well for a better headline.)
The cricket pages are scarcely recognisable with reports of clandestine meetings at Derby, phone calls from the Mumbai fixers and financial doom and gloom everywhere. Clearly these are important issues, worthy of pursuit, but for cricket fans such topics are a further source of despair. All they want is a good scorecard to pore over.
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