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cricketsafari.com - 29 days ago
Cricket Bytes :BOUNCERS
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BOUNCERS As for bouncers, John Arlott tells the story of George Brown, the Hampshire giant who could do just about anything on a cricket field. I wish I could get the exact text because it won’t sound half as good in retelling. Hants were playing Kent and the wicket after a ...
cricketsafari.com - 30 days ago
Cricket Bytes:A new aspect of cricket
— cricketsafari.com — Cricket Heaven? Michael Vaughan and Andrew [Freddie] Flintoff , now elderly, 85 and 82 years old, are... sitting on a park bench outside Lord’s cricket ground feeding pigeons and talking about cricket, past Ashes series, and tours like they do every day. Michael turns to Freddie and ... (more) Cricket Bytes:A new aspect of cricket
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cricketsafari.com - 25 days ago
Cricket Bytes:A story from Past
— cricketsafari.com — The following is an edited extract from Ramachandra Guha?s social history of Indian cricket, A Corner of... a Foreign Field. This piece appeared in the July issue of Wisden Asia Cricket. ———- Towards the end of November 1926 the MCC tourists reached Bombay, having already ... (more) Cricket Bytes:A story from Past
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