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Article: Politics Arrive In Cricketdom; British Players' S. Africa Links Spark Debate in Commonwealth
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- The Washington Post
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- June 28, 1987
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It was a recent Sunday afternoon in Bath, that most beautiful of
English cities, nestled in the green, curving valley of the River
Avon. The sun glowed on the graceful limestone buildings, and church
bells pealed in the distance.
The day was made for cricket, that most English of games whose
very name is synonymous with gentlemanly behavior and fair play.
Much of the city had gathered at the local sporting ground to watch
Somerset, the professional home county team, take on visiting
Warwickshire.
Aging men, dressed in ties and tweed jackets that they declined
to remove in the heat, had the preferred spectator positions in
weathered deck chairs around the border of the playing oval, while ...