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Stud BoyChapter 6 Cricket Club
The Midhurst Cricket Club, by virtue of its distance from a town of any size, drew its members from the area’s rural community. They were a cocktail of farm workers, farm owners and others who had wealth by other means and lived in oversized homes. In cricket the season the club was a microcosm; staffed by the needy and patronised by the Country Club set. These were the people Iris and I were amongst as we watched Ralph’s brief innings. He’d been last batsman; and so, the other side would...