The Independent - London, June 2nd, 1994
THE first Test match of the summer gets under way here today, and if there is an appropriate word to describe the nation's sense of anticipation for this three-match series, the one which springs least readily to mind is agog.
New Zealand have now been travelling England, more or less incognito, for a month and have such an invisible profile that their alternative title could well be the Claude Rains XI. However, the absence of hype at least means that public expectations are not pitched too high and we may yet be pleasantly surprised by a highly combative series.
Even so, it is perhaps just...
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