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A great journey down memory lane from Taha, and a thoughtful analysis on the disappearance of cricket from the national conversation.
In Division One, a feisty Jonny Bairstow frisked 89 at a honey-warm Oval, where the Guardian football writer Jonathan Wilson and his stag do were among the 6,000 spectators. There were three wickets apiece for Surrey’s Jordan Clark and Tom Lawes and a gravity-defying catch by Ben Foakes, hanging in the air like an unvoiced memory. Adam Lyth added another fifty to his hefty season’s collection, but Yorkshire wilted after tea.
