Chapter 13 · free to read
Over eighteen. Sixty-eight not out at the other end, and the only person in the ground who had ever read him properly.
Ball one: the wrong-un, wide and turning. She left it. He wanted her to leave it.
Ball two: the same seam, the same wrist, half a metre shorter. She rocked back to cut it and it was not there.
Ball three: the same again, wider. Now she was reaching. Now the trap had a shape, and she could see it, and she still had to play the next one.
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