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This is a total gem of a book. It is a collection of all the best classic short stories about cricket that there are.
They have the Arthur Conan Doyle one called "The Story of Spedegue’s Dropper". This will always be my favourite. I roared with laughter at the Furniss Drawings in the book – caricatures of WG Grace reprinted with permission from MCC. But besides these there are little gems collected from obscure sources, each of them brilliant in their own right.
Very rarely do you have anything so good in one volume.
From Stuart's list on cricket that will bowl you over.
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