TOO MUCH TECHNO IS SPOILING LOVE FOR THE GAME

Keeping quiet: But there will be no Kagiso Rabada in the second Test after receiving a ban for his send-off for Ben Stokes at Lord’s
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Call me a Luddite… No, really, call me a Luddite, please, because if, in the context of television coverage of cricket, being one of them means I am opposed to the use of new technology which threatens to suck the blood out of it or, on occasions, actually interferes with the action and risks materially affecting the outcome of a match then, unashamedly, unapologetically, unreservedly, count me in. Don’t get me wrong...

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