In today’s newsletter: a tree that has provided for the game over hundreds of years is now protecting it for the future In those dog days of late June, when it was too hot to do anything but count down the hours until the sun went down, sport frazzled as well. Horse races were cancelled, a guest village provided shade at the Wimbledon qualifiers, and all around the UK school activities were wiped out, from sports days to the national rounders tournament. At the third Test at Trent Bridge, where