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| | Perspective UK North |
 | | Cricket leads because it had, first, Neville Cardus (who wrote as if cricket were music, and music cricket), then John Arlott, master and apt pupil, to invest the game with a poetry of its own. |
| | Old Johnny Long, a player whose exploits had turned to brittle yellow paper in the pavilion, presented me with his first eleven cap one day when I was playing particularly well in practise. |
| | In effect, one-day cricket, which purists said was not proper cricket because it was vulgar compared with the stately progression of real county games, has translated itself into the longer contest. |
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