CAMPAIGN VICTORY PUTS CRICKET ON FRONT FOOT!

ADAM COLLINS

Victory for The Cricket Paper! At least a little bit. Indulge me one final time on this topic, explaining how it came to pass that this week’s Test Match at Old Trafford is the first to be played where the television umpire adjudicates front-foot no-balls rather than the officials in the middle. As far as this column is concerned, the saga goes back to 2016 and has been an interest (indeed, an obsession at times) ever since. At last, common sense has prevailed.
To recap on the development, a simple one-sentence tweet went up on the International Cricket...

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