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...term comes from cricket, where a batsman who knocked down three successive wickets was awarded...
...good many Indians, behaving in a more British fashion than the British is cricket-even though until independence in 1947, most cricket clubs, not to mention polo and tennis clubs as well, were strictly off-limits to all but the most powerful or wealthy Indians...
...Last week, for instance, a headline in one New Delhi newspaper read: STERN TASK AHEAD FOR INDIA. A New Year's appeal by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for the country to buckle down to the job of developing its resources? Not at all. The story referred to a cricket test match being played in Calcutta between India and England...
...Cricket in Times Square (Dell, 75?) and Tucker's Countryside (Camelot, 95?), by George Selden...
...remaining 1,100 Asians, who are Ugandan citizens, to abandon their homes and businesses in the towns and become farmers in the bush country. He has decreed that national sports teams must be Africanized, which means, for example, that star Asian players will be dropped from the Uganda cricket team...