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Rex Alston
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BIOGRAPHY

Broadcaster and journalist. Staff Sports Commentator and Reporter, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1942–61. Cricket Reporter, Daily and Sunday Telegraph (London), 1961–88. Author of Watching Cricket and others.

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Jonny Bairstow of England, wearing a light blue uniform and helmet, batting during the 2019 Cricket World Cup semi-final against Australia, with two Australian fielders behind the stumps.
Cricket, England’s national summer sport, which is now played throughout the world, particularly in Australia, India, Pakistan, the West Indies, and the British Isles. Cricket is played with a bat and ball and involves two competing sides (teams) of 11 players. The field is oval with a rectangular…
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