During a match that started August 25, 1945 at Lord s, an exasperated Harold Gimblett uttered a racist comment at Learie Constantine. As Abhishek Mukherjee elaborates, it ended in good-natured camaraderie, complete with a nice epilogue.
Read MoreGeorge Cecil Ives: Writer, Poet, Criminologist, Reformer and the pioneering First-Class cricketer to come out of the closet
George Cecil Ives, born October 1, 1867, was a poet, writer and penal reformer … fate also made him the first ever First-Class cricketer to admit to homosexuality. Abhishek Mukherjee documents the curiously interesting character.
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