Ben Gardner

When points and pointlessness combine

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The Cricket Paper Team
21 April 2024

BEN GARDNERR
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So was that basically all meaningless then? A fortnight that may as well not have happened? We’ve had 16,817 runs, 378 wickets, and only a Kookaburra-defying, rain-dodging Sam Cook ten-for prevented the first two rounds of the County Championship from being wall-to-wall stalemates. And even that victory may essentially be rendered void, with Essex waiting nervously on the full toll of an almost-certain points penalty for Feroze Khushi unknowingly using an oversized bat.
Is this the cricket gods’ way of telling the schedulers to have a rethink? ‘No really, count...

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