“I can tell you that it is no game for children, and I will confess that, in spite of my nine campaigns, I felt myself turn pale when the first ball flashed past me.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Of cricket) Adventures of Gerard (1903

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Scottish physician and author 1859–1930

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