Cricket on the Hearth
| UNING in to 125 on a recent wintry Saturday evening at 6.30, I heard one session of a still unlisted series"Great Sporting Events of the Past"and found myself enthralled. Here we were in London in August, 1926, watching the fifth Test Match of the season,
the match that won the Ashes for England for the first time for 12 years. How pleasantly refreshing to be feeling excited about this after all these years. I have played and watched cricket with a slow, "days in the sun" enjoyment, but have always thought it the least radiogenic of sports. The uncomfortable thought occurs to me that there may be those who think that a cricket match has a long, three-day symphonic form of its own, and that to pick out the highlights and compress them into 15 minutes is sacrilege. I leave it to the highbrows who wallow in Wisden to expound this point of view. My own standup clap, for what it is worth, goes to this session, which has been arranged and produced in Wellington.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 324, 7 September 1945, Page 8
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179Cricket on the Hearth New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 324, 7 September 1945, Page 8
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