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Article: Critics warm to Test venue.
- Article from:
- Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- July 12, 2009
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FOR those cricket fans not able to get their hands on an Ashes ticket or not able to get close to a TV during working hours, at least there was the novelty of listening to Radio Four's iconic Test Match Special live from Cardiff.
With TMS stalwarts Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Henry Blofeld on board, not to mention a certain Geoffrey Boycott, we waited with bated breath for the inevitable criticism of the decision to bring the Ashes this side of the Severn.
And, of course, it came within moments of the first ball, with apologies for those stuck in that ...