Delaying a win for lunch is hard to swallow but cricket's rules make sense | The Spin

The rules around taking a break are hard to stomach at times, such as at Centurion, but they are for the good of the gameOn the last day of July in 1884 the touring Australian side arrived at The Oval for a game against the Players of England, a team made up of representatives from across the English counties.It was not much of a match, with the English – weakened by Nottinghamshire’s and Lancashire’s refusal to let their top players travel south – proving unable to deal