06-01-2020 22:06 via theguardian.com

Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad play hits when world prefers new material | Jonathan Liew

England’s grand old double act are consummate professionals who keep honing skills that could be lost to future generationsThe decline of music hall came slowly at first. By the 1930s and 1940s it had ebbed a little from its turn-of-the-century peak and was no longer the dominant form of popular entertainment. But through the Great War, the birth of jazz and swing, the spread of cinema and the gramophone, it endured. In the jaws of the television age, and to gently dwindling audiences, the
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