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WE NEED ANOTHER TV HERO
WE are told that this year is an historic summer of cricket with the One-Day World Cup followed by an Ashes series.
But will it have a wider impact on the general public? I doubt it, as once again there will be no live coverage on terrestrial television.
As a result, they’ll be no “heroes” to emerge like Botham in 1981 and Flintoff in 2005, nor will we have the attention that the inaugural final of 1975, (as featured in...