Why the Cricket World Cup will taste sweeter once the rain has passed | Barney Ronay

Jun 14, 2019

The weather has made its point and in the battle for cricket’s soul rain stands on one side saying this is not a product to be sold by the yard

At one point in his novel Rabbit Is Rich John Updike has his goofy antihero Harry Angstrom staring at the rain through his car windscreen during yet another interminable family crisis, watching the colours wash together on the asphalt, and finding a strange kind of comfort. Updike writes: “Rabbit has always liked rain. It puts a roof on the world.”

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