Daniel Rey

The deserted village green: is this the end of cricket as we know it?

The Arcadian image of England will be lost forever if The Hundred — the short, urban game now favoured by the ECB — takes over

Swan Green near Lyndhurst in the New Forest, Hampshire. Credit: Getty Images
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