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Those days in the sun

CRICKET: THE GOLDEN AGE (Cassell, £30) by Duncan Steer takes the modern cricket-follower to the time when the game was more about characters and less about statistics. As Graham Gooch points out, there are no antics today in the final session of a dying test. But not so long ago, after a nail-biting day in the field (bottom middle), cricketers would slip into fancy dress and let their hair down (bottom left — Geoff Boycott as Ranji, and Ian Botham as Boycott). And ladies would puff their faces before going in to bat (top middle). In this largely anglocentric universe, a sari-clad Sharmila Tagore (spelt “Shamile here”) — in 1967, the fiancée of the Nawab of Pataudi Jr. — comes as a pleasant surprise (right). But the truly unforgettable photograph is that of the fearsome Harold Larwood (top left) delivering cola in Sydney, 23 years after last appearing for England.