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Bob Carpenter bats with WG Grace
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Read MoreSwansea PA promises refund for Somerset’s defensive cricket against Glamorgan
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Read MoreThe Locust Scare
A most unusual report appeared in The Times on May 11, 1970, narrating a sinister plot hatched by a British biology student. Abhishek Mukherjee elaborates on perhaps the most extreme measure ever conceived to prevent a cricket tour from taking place.
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The day AB de Villiers became lax-man
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