Someone quipped on social media as the US election vote count dragged on: “Finally Americans are learning about the exquisite agony of five-day Test cricket.”

We can only be grateful that nobody has told Donald Trump about the Duckworth-Lewis method of calculating a winner if play is impeded in any way. It’s a mathematical formulation designed to calculate the target score for the team batting second in a limited-overs cricket match interrupted by weather or other circumstances...

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