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A young Indian student from Cambridge was selected for England’s cricket team after public pressure.
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It was one of those rare occasions when a game of cricket had not been interrupted by the weather, but would the Church be so forgiving?
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‘Rain stopped play’ but it did not stop the ladies of Surrey and Hampshire from finishing their epic struggle at the Newington ground.
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In the year that Ranjitsinhji put aside his bat to concentrate on being the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, journalist A. G. Gardiner looked back on his dazzling career.
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A. A. Milne warns that marketing cricket to people who don’t like the game must not spoil it for those who do.
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A. A. Milne analyses the popularity of golf, and decides that it’s good to be bad.
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John Nyren tells us about one of cricket’s truly great batsmen, John Small.