CLICKGATE: WHAT CRICKET CHEATING SCANDAL REVEALS ABOUT THE NEBULOUS ‘SPIRIT’ OF THE GAME

Yogifromhills/Shutterstock Cricket, by some metrics the world’s second most popular sport, has a penchant for producing rather peculiar scandals. UK-Australian relations were put under significant strain over the way that Harold Larwood, a coal miner from Nottinghamshire who could hurl cricket balls at batters very quickly, bowled at Don Bradman and the rest of…

Arts + Culture – The Conversatio reports that yogifromhills/Shutterstock Cricket, by some metrics the world’s second most popular sport, has a penchant for producing rather peculiar scandals.

The report adds: UK-Australian relations were put under significant strain over the way that Harold Larwood, a coal miner from Nottinghamshire who could hurl cricket balls at batters very quickly, bowled at Don Bradman and the rest of…

The tactic even resulted in a severe fractured skull for wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield.

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