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🏏 Cricket Roundup: QdK’s class, IND are papering over the cracks, & ENG’s specialist issue.
📚 Best Features: Terry O’Connell’s half-century burden, & ENG’s grade cricket connections.
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“A silence broken”
✍️ Adam Burnett talks to Terry O’Connell about the ball he bowled in an innocuous grade cricket game 50 years ago that killed Martin Bedkober at the crease; as a deeply traumatised and repressed Vietnam War vet, the moment has hung over O’Connell’s life ever since. -
“England’s grade cricket connections”
🔒 Cameron Ponsonby traces the improbable, funny and influential connections between England’s internationals and Australia’s grade cricket system.
🗞️ Quick News: T20 WC tickets, the ICC’s media sale problems, & growing gambling concerns.
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