Donald Trump has nothing on Greg Fredericks. Neither does Kim Jong-un. "I’ve got three buttons on my desk‚" Fredericks‚ the CE of the Gauteng Cricket Board‚ said at the Wanderers on Tuesday night. "I’ll push the first one at three o’clock — rain! Then I’ll push the second one — bees!" Unusual as it is for the suits‚ especially the rare respectable specimens among them‚ to want play interrupted‚ Fredericks had a point. Starting a match in workaholic Johannesburg on a Wednesday is not unlike opening a tap in Cape Town these days: a very bad idea. Blame the suits’ greed‚ which leads to ever more cricket being force-fed down the game’s clogged throat‚ which leads to playing schedules designed for machines and not people. Or blame Virat Kohli’s wedding reception‚ which — if you believe this theory — is why India could not arrive in SA in time to play a Boxing Day Test. So here we are‚ looking out at the veritable 4am parking lot in which SA and India are playing the third Test. You can h...
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