For all the flippancy and deserved snark, the Hundred was actually good fun | Jonathan Liew

Watching the men’s Oval Invincibles beat the Manchester Originals felt familiar despite the new format’s funky packaging

The tension rose as the man in green holding the ball ran towards the man in black holding the long wooden stick. With a serious look on his face, the man in green jumped in the air and hurled the ball at the man with the stick, standing in front of three thinner sticks, and another man in green wearing funny big gloves. The man with the stick tried to hit the ball, but it was a well-directed yorker on fifth stump that he could only dig out to long-on, and …

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