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THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN
It’s been quite the summer for retirements and ‘unretirements’.
By far the flashiest farewell was that of Stuart Broad at the end of the Men’s Ashes, complete with video montages, guards of honour, headband-wearing fans and tributes galore, not to mention a spectacular bit of bail-swapping theatrics.
There was the lol-inspired unretirement of Moeen Ali, followed by his second and presumably final (although you never know!) Test retirement. Meanwhile Ben Stokes has opted for an ODI retirement reversal that has caused a kerfuffle among at least some...
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