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ROB’S HISTORY CORNER: The Multicultural Cricketer

Godrey Cripps spent various parts of his life in India, England and South Africa before eventually ending up in South Australia. (Supplied: Robert Laidlaw)
Robert Laidlaw

HIDDEN away in the south-western corner of North Road Cemetery is a test cricketer whose name nobody would recognise, Godfrey […]

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