DEREK PRINGLE

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Cricket is not just a game where 11 players pit their skills and wits against 11 others, but one where both sides also try to harness the conditions in all their unknowable mystery.
Those conditions tend to vary with climate which means in a big country like India, where the 50-over World Cup is due to start in a few weeks’ time, the playing environment won’t be standardised much beyond the dimensions of pitch and stumps.
England, in particular, could experience enormous variation, their group stage matches taking them from Dharamsala in the mountainous north t...