CRICKETING NOTABLES.—When the former England tert captain, A. E. R. Gilligan, made a brief visit to Suva late last month, he met Ilikena Bula, who the previous week had set a Fijian record by scoring 246. Here he Is seta congratulating Bula, who hit 22 sixes during his innings. At left is Mr Harry King, a vice-president of the Fiji Cricket Association, a cricket writer and radio commentator. At the right is the noted author. Alee Waugh, who was “Bobby Southcott” in A. G. MacDonell’s magnificent cricket chapter in “England, Their England”—perhaps the best-loved and most amusing piece of cricket writing in the long history of the game.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28820, 14 February 1959, Page 5
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108CRICKETING NOTABLES.—When the former England tert captain, A. E. R. Gilligan, made a brief visit to Suva late last month, he met Ilikena Bula, who the previous week had set a Fijian record by scoring 246. Here he Is seta congratulating Bula, who hit 22 sixes during his innings. At left is Mr Harry King, a vice-president of the Fiji Cricket Association, a cricket writer and radio commentator. At the right is the noted author. Alee Waugh, who was “Bobby Southcott” in A. G. MacDonell’s magnificent cricket chapter in “England, Their England”—perhaps the best-loved and most amusing piece of cricket writing in the long history of the game. Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28820, 14 February 1959, Page 5
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