The Spin | Worcestershire thrive in a summer of adversity, bereavement and floods

Mourning Josh Baker and ravaged by the climate crisis, the county have made the most of limited meansSomerset could still win their first County Championship title, while Surrey remain on for the three-peat. Gloucestershire’s victory in the T20 Blast was particularly rousing – watched by David Lawrence, their club president so visibly confronted by the effects of motor neurone disease – but Worcestershire’s tale may be the most remarkable of the summer, one of existential