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Big crowds, big stars: Domestic T20 competitions are setting the agenda for the game’s future
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When David Storey, arguably the greatest novelist to have played professional sport (granted a narrow genre), wrote his prescient tome, This Sporting Life, he put into cuttingly honest words how our emotions and the challenges we face are often channelled, or at the very least reflected, in sport.
The opposite is also true – that sport is reflected in life; there is a wealth of fiction which h...