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PLANET CRICKET

Tim Wigmore explains how the evolution of time has taken teams to the brink of a once unthinkable feat in one-day cricket
The revolution continues. The bedlam of England’s 481 runs against Australia at Trent Bridge did not feel like the culmination of the transformation in batting, but rather its next stage. All the while, inexorably, ODI batting’s four-minute mile – a team score of 500 – is reaching closer into ...