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The English football international who played cricket for Newport and Monmouthshire
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One of the most colourful characters to ever play for Glamorgan was Frank Ryan, the Indian-born spinner who had been brought up in North America…
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The photograph below shows the Alpha Cricket Club with the Cardiff and District League Challenge Cup in 1899. It was a significant achievement for a…
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The county teams which played during the Victorian era contained a number of colourful and aristocratic characters – this was the case with Denbighshire who…
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