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Dickens?The Cricket on the Hearth (manuscript...
...when Australia won her first match on English ground, cartoonists pictured an urn containing the ashes of British cricket. Since then the teams have contested for the "ashes...
...Cricket is liked by almost every British citizen, no matter where he lives. It is played with a ball harder than a baseball, with big flat bats, with eleven men on a side, two batters (one at each wicket), a bowler, a wicketkeeper, and an interval of tiffin. The professional members of a team eat in a part of the clubhouse separate from the amateurs' and their names are printed without "Mr." in the lineups...
...which it is the batsman's business to defend. When one of the batsmen knocks the ball away from his wicket, he may exchange places with the other batsman, thus scoring a run. The procedure of scoring does not greatly differ from that used in two-old-cat; but cricket is unique among all games for profound, untechnical and subtle reasons. Its rhythm, the pace at which its climaxes are reached and at which they disappear, is slower than anything except the growth and decay of empires...
Besides the test matches between England and Australia, the great cricket matches are played between the public schools of Britain?Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Westminster?between counties, or between professional teams. The greatest of all professionals is famed Jack Hobbs, one of the best batsman in cricket, who made 16 centuries last