Cricket
/ A ConversationThe Umpire’s Sabbatical
Stephen Wren officiated 241 Test matches and then, without explanation, walked into the woods of Cumbria for ten months.
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Photograph — Eleanor Brett
The cottage has one window, faces east, and is too small to swing an umpire’s arm inside. He chose it, he says, for exactly that reason.
“I made decisions for thirty years. I wanted to go somewhere that did not require me to make any decisions at all.”
— Stephen Wren
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Priya writes about the arithmetic of cricket and the loneliness of tennis. She files from wherever the Test match is.
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