As calm settles over the cricket ball-tampering crisis and the extraordinary public reaction to it, and as the game’s authorities look to the future, we might ask what has been the meaning of it all. Why so many words, such passion, such universal dismay? The answer lies in the nature of the game, its history, and its place in our lives and culture.
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