Or consider the —the bowler and batsman who are secretly close friends. Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers. They destroy each other on the field, yet embrace in the dugout. This is a romantic storyline of a different kind: the love of mutual respect, the tension of professional opposition, and the safety of personal alliance. The death over becomes a dialogue. “I will try to break your stumps.” “I will try to hit you over long-on.” “And then we will drink coffee.”
The scoreboard glared like a sentencing:
