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Womanisers, war heroes, rebels, belligerents and drunks all feature in Richard H. Thompson’s witty pen portraits of the great players of the game

Bill Edrich, one of Richard H. Thomas’s cricketing heroes. [Alamy]
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  • Cricketing Lives

    Richard H. Thomas

    Reaktion Books, pp. 437, £20

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