“Oh, Lord, if I must die today,
Please make it after Close of Play.
For this, I know, if nothing more,
I will not go, without the score...”

— John Major

Excerpt of poem variously titled "Cricket Match" or "A Cricket Prayer" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23069-1768078,00.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1768342,00.html
1990s, 1997

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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1943

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