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Taking on the Vatican at cricket

By Tom Holland
Related Categories: Journalism, Tom Holland Posts
Related Tags: bbc, Cricket

The Vatican is not traditionally known as a hotbed of cricketing talent, so a team in holy orders shouldn’t prove too much for a touring XI of authors from the UK, should it? Not so, as the historian Tom Holland recounts.

 

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