Smoking On Field Is Not Cricket
The expression, “It’s not cricket” is used frequently in everyday life to describe actions which do not conform to established principles of right and proper behaviour, and, in the game itself, it can well be applied to the practice of some cricketers —fortunately they are few—who smoke on the field of play, not always when players are actually batting, but often while awaiting the incoming batsman. Footballers do not smoke while waiting for a player to take a kick at goal or while an injured player is attended, to—even at half-time there are few who smoke, so why should cricketers? This habit denotes at least a certain lack of interest in the proceedings, and the cricket field is hardly the place for indulging it.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 February 1947, Page 9
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