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For twenty overs before it becomes available, the second new ball is the only thing anyone in the ground is thinking about.
The waiting game
Batters try to survive to the eightieth over without giving anything away. Bowlers try to keep the run rate down with an old, soft ball that does very little.
It is one of the few passages in cricket where both sides are openly playing for a moment in the future.
Six overs that decide a session
A hard ball, a bit of shine and a fast bowler with fresh legs will take wickets or it will not. There is very little middle ground, and the next hour of the match follows from those six overs.
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