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Beyond the boundary - Himal Southasian


Beyond the boundary
(This article is part of our special series Unmasking Southasia: The pandemic issue. You can read the editorial note to the series here.)
The pace at which it shut down across the world was staggering.
In Colombo, the England Test side were in the midst of their weeks-long preparation for a Test series against Sri Lanka – a tour their backroom staff had spent months planning for. At the start of their four-day warm-up match at the P Sara Oval on 12 March 2020, hopes remained high that the tour would be played as scheduled. But news on the spread of the pandemic in England quickly turned dire. On the morning of 13 March, two days after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, England’s players told team management they would prefer to return home, fearing not only for their families, but also the closing of international borders, which would leave the team stranded abroad. England captain Joe Root was fielding that after ....

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