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From the mines of Nottinghamshire to the MCC boxes at Lord’s, cricket reveals the divides of class, identity, and empire in Britain. Dion Fanning traces how a day at the Test becomes a mirror of the nation.

Peter Casey, the former presidential candidate, has a long-standing friendship with two of India's wealthiest families, some of whom hold Irish citizenship. He talks about the death of a patriarch, the fall-out between the two clans and their Dublin connection.

The former Yorkshire cricketer Azeem Rafiq has shaken cricket to its core with his revelations about his time at the club and his claims about some of the game's biggest names. But the importance of the story goes far beyond cricket.