Series and matches are getting shorter as the sport’s pace of change quickens – as if cricket is a proxy for wider fears There was a strange atmosphere on the final day of the Lord’s Test last week. It was a bank holiday Sunday, Jofra Archer was bowling the occasional rocket, and England were ab...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/sep/04/test-cricket-ponders-end-times-again-but-this-decline-feels-both-real-and-symbolic)

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