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“Before 1914 it was beauty that counted in cricket - elegance of strokes, stylishness of bowling action, quixotry in captaincy. The gallant gesture was just as important as the mammoth score, the picturesque as the efficient.”
Cricket Heritage (1948) http://biblio.co.uk/books/47419262.html
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