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Other World Test Championship ruined by rain

by
The Cricket Paper Team
27 June 2021

Garfield Robinson reflects on events this week in Southampton and says it has all happened before

A competition to find the best Test side which was marred by rain and played in front of empty seats and won on an extra day? Well, it has happened twice now.
In 1909 at the inaugural meeting of the ICC, South Africa proposed creating what was in effect a world Test championship.
South Africa had not won any of her 11 Tests when England sent an under-strength side to South Africa in 1905-06. But, bamboozled by South Africa’s googly bowlers, England lost 4-1. Moreover, after they lost the first ...