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...British Grand Prix, Silverstone The Royal Automobile Club’s annual 52-lap motor race is a famed stop-off during the Formula One rounds....
..., the Indian Premier League cricket franchise....
...Yet Australia, South Africa and the West Indies all beat India to the wicket of London’s Marylebone Cricket Club, as the “imperial game” was popularised around the globe as an expression of British soft...
...But the 231-year-old Marylebone Cricket Club has a separate lease on the surface and has frustrated previous development attempts....
...s Cup, a Scots v English game organised by the parliamentary golf society....
...The sporting life Another advantage of Hampshire is that it can lay claim to be the site of the first serious cricket club in the country....
...When the monsoon finally ended we spent happy afternoons sitting in deck chairs on the lawns of the colonial-era Breach Candy club, or splashing about in its giant India-shaped pool....
...Moreover, a Latin referee at England v Argentina might not have sent off Rattín for “the look on his face”, as the West German Rudolf Kreitlein reportedly did....
...Serena v Venus....
...For there is no event in sport quite so calculated to get one musing on the curiosities of nationality. Originally, the match was Great Britain v the United States....
...He is a Freeman of the City of Nottingham and an honorary life vice-president of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club....
...… Cricket v football I am a substitute for Brian Groom, who used this column to lament the competition between rugby league and cricket for junior players over the summer....
...Sir Paul has given £5m to the V&A and £3m to the British Museum’s new medieval gallery....
...Until the British left in 1947, there were five sailing clubs: Bombay, Madras, Bangalore, Barrackpore and Nainital. The Yachting Club of India, formed in 1960, has 52 affiliated clubs today....
...Eton v Harrow The annual cricket match between Eton and Harrow public schools was first played at Lord’s in 1805, and is thought to be the oldest cricket fixture still played today....
...Victory in Europe or the relief of Mafeking, or to mourn the deaths of George V and Queen Victoria....
...Christopher Martin-Jenkins President-elect of Middlesex County Cricket Club and commentator for ‘Test Match Special’ on the BBC Where would you choose for a quiet summer day of cricket?...
...“What if it were the Republic of Ireland v Slovenia?” “Ireland”. “Northern Ireland v Slovenia?” “Slovenia”. A Protestant later gave me the reverse set of replies....
...It has been played there since 1783 and Scotland is claimed to have more cricket clubs per head than any other part of the UK....
...Touring Paris in a 2CV On the trial of the lost villages of Paris The Walk file: Cap de Nice pursuits@ft.com …………………….. The details France v....
...The young Mr Chandrasekaran enjoyed chess, cricket and badminton, which he still plays whenever his jet-setting schedule permits....
...Peter Craig, grounds manager at the exclusive Hurlingham sports club in west London, has 42 acres under his care; a combination of grass tennis courts, cricket pitch, bowling greens, croquet pitches and...
...club the sole exception....
...The notices pinned up in the shop windows hinted at the cultural divide: “Eymet Cricket Club v Bordeaux CC. Dimanche, 13.00hrs. The a l’anglais. Boissons fraiches.”...
...The fading sports are those that take years to decode (such as sumo or cricket), those that last too long (cricket or baseball) and those with “ugly” practitioners (sumo, shot put and, arguably, baseball...
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