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MANY PEOPLE are familiar with the history of Australian cricket but the cricket history of Australia is yet to be written. Cricket defined the Australian nation even though the game itself by its very nature is profoundly anti-historical. In its endless recurrent variation, cricket is and is not history.
At any given moment, the complex sequence of movements that make up the game, the physical sensations they produce in the players, and the emotional and intellectual response of spectators seem unique, but no cricket-related action or utterance is ever wholly without precedent. At the same time there is no sport more immersed in records of the matches played, ...