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ummer’s
Crown
The Story of Cricket’s
County Championship


Christopher Saunders
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one for each county
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s t e ph e n c h al ke has spent a year writing a hugely entertaining
by Stephen and a prominent former captain of that
history of the County Championship—350 pages
county. The limitation of each county
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