The Guardian view on cricket: an unexpected renaissance? | Editorial

A compelling Test series, the popularity of Ben Stokes and the return of the village game suggest that all is not lost for English cricketTwo nostalgia-tinged laments for cricket have been published in the past couple of months: Michael Henderson’s That Will Be England Gone and Duncan Hamilton’s One Long and Beautiful Summer. Their premise was that the 2019 season marked the end of cricket as we know it – long-drawn-out games between county teams half-watched by old blokes nodd