T20 tournament has sprung up amid battle for oil and allies but do the cricketers actually know what is going on?
n 1899 an international tribunal controversially settled a border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana in favour of the British, and 125 years later Liam Dawson is walking back to the Providence Stadium pavilion, run out for a two-ball duck after failing to slide his bat into the crease. Obviously we’ve stripped out a little intermediate context there. But these two events, these seemingly random nodes in time, are in fact ephemerally connected.
Because, as it turned out, the 1899 Paris Arbitral Award did not settle things. For most of the last century Venezuela has maintained its claim on the Essequibo province, fiercely stepping up its rhetoric under the autocratic rule of Nicolás Maduro. With oil reserves now at stake, it has begun amassing troops at the border and threatening to annex the region.
And so this is how Dawson ends up run out without sliding in his bat, in a narrow defeat by Lahore Qalandars, in a largely deserted stadium, in a tournament literally nobody asked for. A T20 Champions League without any actual champions, but with a $1m prize pool and Hampshire Hawks invited largely on the strength of its new Indian ownership.
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