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OK, YOU’VE BEATEN DEATH BUT CAN YOU BAT NO.3?

MARTIN JOHNSON
The on-field verbals in St Lucia have turned out to be a bit more spicy than the anodyne stuff you normally get out in the middle (“I’ll bowl you a piano, see if you can play that…”) and it may be time to enhance the TV viewing experience by relocating some of those stump microphones to the dressing rooms. Especially England’s, where stitching together all the conversations about who should be batting at No.3 would be cricket’s equivalent of the Watergate tapes.
“How about you Joe?” “Sorry, captain’s prerogati...

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