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Tim Rice: I left Lord’s during that cricket final… to see The Lion King

27 July 2019

9:00 AM

27 July 2019

9:00 AM

As I left Lord’s at around 3 o’clock in the afternoon to go to The Lion King European premiere I felt uneasy. Not because I doubted England’s chances of overhauling New Zealand’s apparently modest 241, but because I felt guilty at deserting Bairstow for Beyoncé, Morgan for Mufasa. There was no reason to suppose the remainder of the day’s play would be anything out of the ordinary.

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