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Before we were old enough to practise at the nets with the Burslem men, we played most of our cricket on waste land that had been trampled flat by the clogs and boots of generations of miners.

— Bernard Hollowood Cricket on the Brain (1970)

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I was brought up to believe that cricket is the most important activity in men's lives, the most important thread in the fabric of the cosmos.

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