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When Life Bowls You a Googly...(high suicide rate among cricket players)(Brief Article)

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| May 07, 2001 | Beith, Malcolm | COPYRIGHT 2001 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The snail-paced tea drinker's game of cricket wilts the will to live. That's the word from David Frith, author of a new book on the sport, who finds that the suicide rate among professional British cricketers is 70 percent higher than for the average British male. It's not drizzly, depressing English weather that's to blame, either. The stats are actually worse in sunny New Zealand, ...

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