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James Pycroft
James Pycroft (born 1813, Geyers House, Wiltshire, died 1895-03-10, Brighton, Sussex) 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 and one unknown to the perfidious frog, kraut and dagoe ('Cricket is essentially Anglo-Saxon, ...
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