Reign stops play for the Queen, who spent much of her 96 years around big sport | Sport
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 10, 2022
Rain rituals. Sombre men in coats. Waiting in a grey, mannered place while the BBC talks about the Queen. A day of non-cricket at the Oval turned out to be an eerily fitting place to wait out Thursday afternoon.
For much of the time it felt like a pastiche of ceremonial Englishness, the kind of thing John Lennon might have scribbled . . .