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Originally Posted by jaysay
That isn't cricket Eric 
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It is cricket when amateurs - even schoolboys, faced up to the likes of Wes Hall. Chester Watson, Charlie Griffiths and that maniac Gilchrist.
You wore pads, gloves and a box, and if you got hit you tried to grin and bear it, trying like hell not to let the bowler see he had hurt you - no thoughts of taking a swing at the bowler.