For much of Monday, the Guardian’s cricket homepage led with two stories from two very different ends of the sport’s pyramid. “As soon as you step on that line it’s war,” Warner had said, looking ahead to the Ashes. “Whether it’s cricket, rugby league or rugby union, we do all hate England,” he said. “The brilliance and gallantry of Australian cricket at its gayest is hard and aggressive at bottom; no art for art’s sake about it,” he wrote. “A year or two ago orators in thousands came out with the old cant about playing cricket – ‘it isn’t cricket’ – whatever their theme and whatever the occasion.

Source: The Guardian October 17, 2017 10:30 UTC