It is hard to observe cricket, to understand if you aren’t involved.
08 August 2024, The Tablet
Play up and play the game!
Cricket’s rhythms and rules foster immersion or abstraction, rather than the reserved interest of a layman
A Fred Trueman ball is dropped during the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford in 1961
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