Cricket: Six years from today we might look back through pink-coloured glasses

By Greg Baum
Updated November 30 2015 - 10:08pm, first published 8:03pm
What's all the fuss about a pink ball? We'll be looking back through pink-coloured glasses in the future. Photo: Darren Pateman
What's all the fuss about a pink ball? We'll be looking back through pink-coloured glasses in the future. Photo: Darren Pateman

It's the summer of 2021-22. England are back in Australia to defend the Ashes, old warriors Joe Root and Steve Smith presiding. The Melbourne and Sydney Tests are day games in their usual timeslots. Their perennial success validates an observation made years ago by then Wisden editor Matthew Engel, who said the most thriving Test matches are those with a fixed place in the calendar.

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