A Year in Dreamland by Taylor Baptist

Author:Taylor Baptist
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor Baptist
Published: 2014-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

Book Three

Foreign Affairs

Chapter 7

Cricket, Ugly Cricket

Students of history are continually astonished to learn that in Victorian times, the tiny island nation of Great Britain controlled an empire that stretched clear across the globe, and determined the destinies of more than 450 million people. The glue that bound this vast imperial structure together was the game of cricket, and when in 1950, the West Indies secured their first ever victory over England on British soil, the joy of the islanders was forever immortalized in a calypso entitled “Cricket Lovely Cricket”. Alas, the story that unfolds casts the game in a much less noble light.

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