Cup Match 2026: more than a cricket match (Photograph by Akil Simmons)Dear Sir,My wife and I arrived in Bermuda — my fifth time visiting, her third — July 28, just in time for Cup Match. The Cup Match offered a profound example of social solidarity. I could tell that this was and is an example of a culture saying that this event is theirs and should be cherished. (And that’s especially true of what Cup Match is commemorating — emancipation.) But for this American, the Cup Match — and Bermuda itself — offered a vision of humanity at its best.