The Spin | Ramen, rain and realpolitik: the inside story of Japan’s historic cricket clash with India
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What happened
World No 41 side faced political lobbying and mopping up after Typhoon Dujuan before taking on illustrious visitors The relief was writ large on the face of Axar Patel when his final delivery of the match went for a dot ball. India’s raucous fans celebrated, but they knew that Japanese batter Alexander Shirai-Patmore and his teammates had just come perilously close to inflicting one of the biggest upsets in cricket…
Summary assembled by rule from the sources below