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1894–1968 England

Arthur Alexander Thomson MBE (7 April 1894 – 2 June 1968) was an English writer best known for his books on cricket. He was born at Harrogate, Yorkshire, and died near Lord's in London.

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I had devoted too much of my life to this utterly irrational game. I would chuck the whole thing and take to Strindberg for amusement.

Cricket My Happiness (1954)

It is both a pointless and a churlish thing to praise the old days at the expense of the new, though there are a number of things a man might reasonably have preferred to commercial television and the hydrogen bomb.

Odd Men In (1958)

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