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Another five wickets for fast bowler Olly Stone, giving him 50 in a first-class season for the first time, provided at least some celebration for Nottinghamshire after retaining their County Championship became mathematically impossible thanks to Warwickshire’s points haul against Leicestershire at Edgbaston.

This was a triumph that ironically suffered the after-effects of a loss. India’s 1-0 series victory in the two-Test outing recently in Sri Lanka, in normal circumstances, would have been seen as a positive. However, in the race for key points in the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) cycle, the ideal India-centric result would have…