James Pycroft
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James Pycroft
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James Pycroft is chiefly known for writing The Cricket Field, one of the earliest books about cricket, published in 1851. Pycroft mythologised cricket as a noble, manly and essentially British activity. His hagiography favourably compared the virtues of Victorian cricket with the disgraceful state of play at the turn of the century where "Lord's was frequented by men with book and pencil, betting as openly and professionally as in the ring at Epsom, and ready to deal in the odds with any and eve
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English priest and cricket writer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pycroft
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2024-01-29T22:29:20Z
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