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as a noble, manly and essentially British activity ("Cricket is essentially Anglo-Saxon, ... Foreigners have rarely imitated us. English settlers everywhere play at cricket; but of no single club have we heard that dieted either with frogs,
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was frequented by men with book and pencil, betting as openly and professionally as in the ring at
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Pycroft was also a cricketer, appearing in four matches now considered as
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Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886
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This biographical article related to English cricket is a
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