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The Guardian view on Test cricket: the ultimate version of the game is in doubt
“The English are not a very spiritual people,” said George Bernard Shaw, “so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.” Shaw had Test cricket, rather than modern short-form versions of the game, in mind when he said this. Sport as a religious rite. “Cricket is a process, not a sport; seepage rather than drama; a summer’s dawdle akin to a picnic or garden party,” wrote the English novelist Paul West, attempting to explain cricket to Americans. He was not being entirely fair: Test cricket can contain high drama, its intensity often magnified by the torpor which precedes it. But he had a point: lunch and tea are key rituals, and a sport that is suspended when light drizzle fal

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