“It is rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease, only to find ... that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain.”
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“It is rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease, only to find ... that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain.”
Captured 2026-08-17 from BBC. The archived copy is preserved so this citation survives link rot.