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The science on trans athletes is inconclusive. Cricket’s prejudice isn’t

If cricket fans across the eras are to be believed, the game has always been on the brink of extinction. The game should have died yesterday; somehow it survived today, but tomorrow it will definitely slip into oblivion. The unintended consequence of this perpetual mode of apprehension is that on days when there are no real obstacles to overcome and no real issues to solve, imaginary problems must be conjured up, solely because the fight must go on; the chatter machine must keep ticking. Last month, attention fell on women’s cricket, and this purportedly novel effort to ‘save’ it brought in…

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