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Auction of Cricket, Wisden Cricketers' Almanacks, Football and Sporting Memorabilia including the David Frith Collection- 2 Day Auction (#8) 18/03/2023 10:30 AM GMT Closed

Starts Ending 18/03/2023 10:30 AM GMT

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Lot #137E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. ‘E.W.S. at Lord’s’. Three page handwritten article for ‘The Cricketer’. The article is undated, but was written shortly after Australia’s victory by four wickets over M.C.C. at Lord’s on the 1972 tour to England, ‘For the second time in a week the Australians have won against a declaration, this victory over M.C.C. being less spectacular but naturally more significant than that over Hampshire’. Following their victory, Swanton states ‘the Australians must have left Lord’s mig

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  • E.W. ‘Jim’ Swanton. ‘E.W.S. at Lord’s’. Three page handwritten article for ‘The Cricketer’. The article is undated, but was written shortly after Australia’s victory by four wickets over M.C.C. at Lord’s on the 1972 tour to England, ‘For the second time i