1. Cricket is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy (Stephen Fry)
2. FOOTBALL offers the world clichés; RUGBY produces facial deformity; HOCKEY provides an acceptable outlet for psychotic violence; CRICKET alone breeds myths. More quotes here.
First, Prime Ministers and Cricket
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| Earl Baldwin of Bewdley: Did he play professionally or was he just an avid watcher? | Clement Attlee, Did he play professionally or was he just an avid watcher? | Harold Macmillan: was his son a well known cricketer, or was it his grandson | ||
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two part question: Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister
in 1963-64 and President of MSS in 1966-67, was, of course,
a first-class cricketer:
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John Major, is President of Herts CC or Surrey CC | OK,
this chap had something unique to do
with cricket, and with something else as well? He
was keen on Waiting..
Our question: Who is he and what is this unique thing (he's Irish by the way) |
Accidents of birth could have determined different careers for some cricketers....so where were they born?
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| Colin Cowdrey was born in PERSIA or INDIA | Ted Dexter was born in FRANCE or ITALY | Would Freddy Brown (Eng Cap 1950) have Captained PERU or MONGOLIA |
- Earl Baldwin of Bewdley was an avid watcher, often bunking off from Parliament
- Clement Attlee was an avid watcher and had a telegraph machine fitted in the house so he could up to date with the scores
- Harold Macmillan: was proud of the batting for Sussex of his late grandson, Mark Faber
- Sir Alec Douglas-Home was tried as a fastish bowler by Oxford and Middlesex and was a tourist with MCC to South America.
- John Major, is President of Surrey
- Samuel Beckett is the only ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature to be featured in Wisden. He once toured England with the Trinity College Dublin Team.
- Colin Cowdrey was born in INDIA
- Ted Dexter was born in ITALY
- Freddy Brown would have Captained PERU









