No one wants to go back to the old days and heat stroke but constant drinks breaks are killing Test cricket Once, during a searing day in the field many years ago in a foreign land a young bowler, suffering a thumping head, asked for some pain killers to be brought out. They duly arrived, with a glass of water to wash them down, but before he could swallow them an umpire seized the glass and emptied all but a quarter
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How cricket moved from spitting feathers to lashings of runs | Mike Selvey
