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Bill Edrich

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Before 1914 it was beauty that counted in cricket - elegance of strokes, stylishness of bowling action, quixotry in captaincy. The gallant gesture was just as important as the mammoth score, the picturesque as the efficient.
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Cricket Heritage (1948)

 
Bill Edrich

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