The recent journeys I have made to cricket outgrounds across the country have added a new and delightful dimension to my sporting life.
At a time when the world seems more disparate and more tribal than ever before, it feels life-affirming to venture to new pastures.
As sports fans, we tend to identify with our city, our county, our country, but there is something unique, something open-armed about Championship cricket that operates beyond the borders of partisanship and calls up responses less readily defined.
For the most recent Championship round I travelled from Exeter to the magnifice...