Bavuma’s nine-hour masterpiece was art we risk losing in Test cricket’s great purge | Barney Ronay

T20 franchise cricket is trash sport and killing the five-day game is cultural vandalism. What would Orwell have made of this? Have you read George Orwell’s review of Mein Kampf?

This might not sound like a grabby reference, or a killer hook for the algorithm. But Hitler is always hot. Hitler is legacy brand. Hitler is eyeballs. Also, it’s just a great review, even more so because it was written at a time when the world didn’t quite know what Hitler was “all…