“Cricket didn’t talk back to me and it didn’t offer advice. In the postscript, Ridley writes about his recovery not from grief, but from the insanity of grief. There had always been a thought at the back of his mind that in his old age he would spend a summer watching county cricket. Why county cricket? A season of county cricket didn’t magically make Ridley a different person or push his feelings into the background.

Source: The Hindu August 10, 2021 16:07 UTC