ISABELLE WESTBURY

Is there a more satisfying cricketing feeling? Essex celebrate the spoils of a five-month slog with the Championship trophy
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It is easy to romanticise about the past, to wallow in a nostalgia that perhaps never even existed. Thinking this way is often to the detriment of many an administrator. However, it is also true that a knowledge of what went before can be constructive.
Take long-form cricket, for example. There is something to be said for the enduring robustness of this format, whose existence has been threatened since its ver...