In June, Proteas cricket captain Temba Bavuma will lead his team onto the hallowed turf of Lord’s. “Hallowed turf” is a cricket cliché, but like all clichés, it contains a grain of truth.

James Joyce, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, wrote of Dublin that it was “a new and complex sensation”. Lord’s is like that. It is an experience, a sensation. It is packed with more history than a Sotheby’s catalogue...

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