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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Jonathan Liew

English cricket’s reign of shame exposed with devastating admission of guilt

Dark clouds loom over Lord's during a county championship cricket match.
The ugly face of the English game has been brutally exposed in the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket’s report. Photograph: Alex Davidson/Getty Images

You may want to sit down for this part. Turns out – no, seriously – that a sport created and codified for the purpose of allowing rich white landowners to bet against each other, and then exported around the world at gunpoint with the promise that it would civilise savage peoples, may not actually be that progressive.

How can this possibly have happened? Who do we see about this? And who’s asking, anyway?

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