Long live Test cricket - undisputedly the game's greatest format. It's been an honour to bring you the coverage over the six days, and over the course of the entire Test Championship. On that note, a content Rishi Roy bids you goodbye alongside Sagar Chawla, Vineet Anantharaman, Ramakrishnan MS and Mukesh Gowda. Test cricket has won against all odds, and so have New Zealand, in this battle of grit and determination. It was a converging culmination of a test for humanity and a test for the format. And yet Test cricket has prevailed, and provided us with a fitting spectacle for the ages - not in one of the coliseums of world cricket, but in the understated Hampshire bowl - a fitting metaphor for the quiet but immovable, unbreakable spirit of Test cricket. And most recently, the rain has tested us. The ICC's tested us with two cancelled events (20). When the nice guys came first: This Test, one with the highest stakes in history, has been a culmination of a two-year period in cricket that has seen countless obstacles, particularly beyond the boundary.
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