Annie Chave enjoys a rejuvenating start to the season
There was a real sense of celebration on the first day of the Championship this year.
I saw it on social media, spreading across the platforms like a seasonal virus, I heard it on the lips of the chattering crowds as they queued expectantly at the Vivian Richards gates, and I felt it in the media centre as we took to the microphone overlooking the well-populated stands.
‘A renaissance,’ I heard. ‘Oh, how we’ve missed it,’ they told me. With all slates clean and a blank page to be filled with statistics, records were there to be broken. ...
