Monday, April 18, 2016

Cricket's First Fatality?

Cricket's first death may well have come about in 1751 with a royal victim. Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, who was struck violently in the chest by a cricket ball and shuffled off this mortal coil very shortly after - almost certainly as a consequence of the mishap.
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Jonah Sulks Because God Does Not Destroy Nineveh Following Their Repentance. In My Part of England He'd Be Described As 'Mardy'.

  5)  Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what ...