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The Cricket World Cup: A Preview, Part 1

Every four years, the world’s top cricket teams gather to play a series of one-day internationals (ODIs)—the 50-over form of the game—to determine who is the best. It’s the nearest thing that cricket gets to a competition that the entire … Continue reading

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England Win the Ashes!

England has beaten Australia at cricket! In recent years, this formulation—once so rare a sentence that it could be considered a typographical error—has become common, even a commonplace. Australia’s cricket team is simply not as good as England’s, even though … Continue reading

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New Zealand Beat Australia for the First Time in Twenty Years

In a major upset and in a finish that was the very definition of nail-biting, the underdog New Zealand cricket team has beaten the mighty Australians in a Test match for the first time in twenty years. Doug Bracewell, the … Continue reading

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