Talismanic bowler has helped turn around hers and England’s World Cup prospects, mirroring the story of her early years
The latest edition of the Indian Premier League kicks off this weekend. It poses some interesting questions. The IPL is gripping, high-grade stuff. Like me you may well end up watching every second of it, even as you complain loudly about the fact that, oh look, you’re watching every second of it.
But starting again? Really? Was there an extended period in the last two years where you could say with any real certainty that the IPL had actually stopped? Perhaps in future it might be easier to assume, unless specifically stated otherwise, that the IPL is still going on. That somewhere in the rolling T20 metaverse the commentator who shouts “wow!” at everything is shouting “wow!” as a man in a shirt daubed with cement manufacturers flat-bats one over cover, that this is simply the engine around which every other moving part rotates now.
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