BOWLING FOR PINK
Mar 11, 2021
4 minutes
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George Bennett wants to discuss something that’s on his mind. “What on earth was going on with that pitch?” the Jumbo-Visma rider muses, stunned. “Were they playing on a bloody minefield or something?”
The New Zealander is talking about the third cricket Test between India and England, that the latter lost inside two days, the shortest Test since 1935. Bennett has no sympathy for England – indeed, at the 2019 Tour de France he was heartbroken watching the Kiwis lose to England in the cricket World Cup final – but he’s perplexed by what happened in Ahmedabad.
I mention that England captain Joe Root got five wickets, the
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