08-07-2020 20:33 via theguardian.com

Drizzle, bubbles and a dystopian feel greet Test cricket's new normal

England and West Indies were there to do battle but that was the only familiar aspect of the first day at an eerie Ageas BowlIt was a case of the new normal colliding with a dose of the same old, same old. Mizzling rain wiped out the first three hours of the first Test and for a spell it looked like the weather may hold sway all day; a cruel joke after a sun-drenched spring and early summer.But come 2pm, after Ben Stokes and Jason Holder had produced a moment of socially-distant mirth through an
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