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'Cricket is blessed with a vast and well-developed culture, greater, I would dare suggest, than that of any other sport'

Cricket is blessed with a vast and well-developed culture, greater, I would dare suggest, than that of any other sport. The game’s variety and artistry and its wider social significance have always attracted writers from the poetic end of the spectrum: not just men who specialised in cricket, such as Neville Cardus, or R C Robertson-Glasgow, but literary figures with a broader hinterland, such as Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden.

 

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