The calming summer scene of cricketers in their whites. A sport like no other - as if concocted by Oscar Wylde on a hashish binge.
Apologists for the brutal British Empire like to pretend they bestowed all kinds of gifts on the colonies they looted (funny how Japan has all those things anyway despite never being colonised). But the only thing that probably wouldn’t be here had they not been that’s worth a damn is the game of cricket.