21st century actors playing 20th century cricketers being treated like 19th century cricketers
I was old enough to know that cricket – Test cricket, the glorious game that kept me indoors all summer long with the curtains closed, the better to see the television – might be stopped. I was old enough to know that if something was all over the papers (front pages and back), that this was no idle threat. I didn’t know what “boycott” meant (wasn’t he a player?), nor what the whole thing had to do with the circus – a Christmas Day “treat” I could do without, thank you Mr BBC. But I was old enough to know that the Australian villain of the piece and his buddies sounded more like the kind of people I was beginning to side with.
The older I got, the more I respected the men who were vilified in…
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