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On not being good at cricket

By Tom Holland
Related Categories: Journalism, Tom Holland Posts
Related Tags: Cricket, Financial Times

For historian and hopeless sportsman Tom Holland, cricket meant ‘tedium, interspersed with the odd moment of raw terror’. Until the day he watched Botham’s Ashes heroics and was utterly converted.

 

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