The very first paragraph reads: “It was in Buxton, after all, that snow once stopped play in a county cricket match in June.” Can a
Laurie Lee, famous English poet, novelist, and screenwriter, had chosen the wrong day to watch cricket.
The author, Mohammad Abdullah Khan, had promised to ‘entertain’ the readers. He did a good job at it.
Thanks to Savukshaw, things took such unusual proceedings that MCC’s annual ball budget took a serious toll.
Apart from cricket, Rupert Brooke was also more than competent at rugby.
Lord Tennyson knew that there was bowling, and something called stumping, involved in cricket, but...
There is evidence to suggest that Elizabeth Barrett Browning played a bit of cricket at Colwall Green, under the Malvern Hills.
Eton won the match against Lord Byron’s Harrow and followed it with a poem to rub it in. Byron rose to the challenge.
Lord Byron had a club foot. However, he did venture onto the cricket pitch in the rather prestigious Eton vs Harrow encounter of 1805.
The foreword makes this a truly incredible volume. It is by none other than AB de Villiers.
George Orwell drew firm boundaries between cricket and war in a scathing letter.
If ever there was a head-on contest between two legends that decided the outcome of a game poised on knife’s edge, India vs Australia at
Edward Phillips Jr, perhaps unknowingly, made the first mention of a cricket ball in literature.
Cyril Ritchard, born December 1, 1898, was a famed Australian stage, screen and television actor and director.
Cricket did crop up in the work of Charles Dickens many a time.
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