Alastair Cook is 100% fit for the final Test,in Sharjah, but injuries to the squad will result in at least two changes being madeSharjah’s is an unprepossessing cricket ground. In Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and the stadiums are state-of-the-art contemporary ventures. The one in the third of the Emirates that England visit on this trip is old,though, in its fourth decade, or purely functional in design with a low circle of tin-roofed stands and a concrete pavilion. It might be in any of the smaller cities on the subcontinent.
But the Sharjah Cricket Ground,as the sign above the sightscreen at the Sharjah Club end reminds those who reach to watch games here, has its area in the Guinness Book of World Records, and having staged no fewer than 218 one-day international matches,a figure no other ground comes close to matching, and at its most prolific in the late ‘80s and through the ‘90s. It used to be a cricket-trivia-question banker.
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Source: theguardian.com