Test cricket ponders end times again, but this decline feels both real and symbolic | Emma John
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Series and matches are getting shorter as the sport’s pace of change quickens – as if cricket is a proxy for wider fears There was a strange atmosphere on the final day of the Lord’s Test last week. It was a bank holiday Sunday, Jofra Archer was bowling the occasional rocket, and England were about to wrap up a much-needed series victory over Pakistan. The ground wasn’t full – it’s harder to sell day-four tickets in…
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