The best sporting contest of the lockdown era has been full of qualities we’ve all needed: endurance, patience, transcendence

Every man has his
BREAKING point. You and I have one. Navdeep Saini, India’s seventh-choice seam bowler, reached his at The Gabba on Friday morning.
Let’s take a walk, for a moment, down that quarantined hotel corridor. It is now five months since India’s cricketers began their bubble-bound odyssey across the continents, from Dubai to Sharjah to
Sydney and Melbourne, ferried in sealed isolation from airport to hotel to empty concrete bowl.