David Rosenthal: belief

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…Yes. And the incentives are all funny too. It’s not about swinging these big home runs. Your goal is basically to hit little line drives, keep it on the ground, and make sure that you’re able to score one run at a time, not six runs. You have a lot of time over the course of five days to let your strategy play out. You’re not trying to make the absolute most use of every ball bowled the way that you are in modern versions of cricket. To give you a little sense of this, Test cricket and I believe One Day Internationals as well, there are four possible outcomes of the game. You can win, you can lose, you can tie. Wait, so what’s the fourth?…

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