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Helen Owton, Lecturer in Sport and Fitness, The Open University

Field of dreams? How some professional cricketers continue to pay the price for sporting excellence

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What comes to mind when you think of cricket? Perhaps it’s an idyllic scene of an English village green – people sitting on deckchairs and checkered blankets tucking into a traditional cricket tea while watching mild-mannered players in sparkling whites shouting “howzat?!” every now and then?

The stereotype of a genteel, quintessentially English sport can be light years away from the reality, however.

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