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GH on a rare assemblage

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Gideon Haigh
Nov 13, 2024
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Sir Robert Menzies, Australia’s longest-serving prime minister, called Lord’s the ‘Cathedral of Cricket’, but his visit in 1957 must have felt like dying and going to heaven: he is surrounded, in this rich and wonderful photograph, by some of the game’s most gilded names, and doing his best not to look too self-conscious at being flanked by Frank Woolley, doing his best impersonation of Anthony Eden, and Sir Pelham Warner, looking a little like a shrunken Gladstone.

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