Letter: From pit to wicket
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: A tiny side note to the left-handedness-in-cricket correspondence. When I was playing league cricket in Durham in the Fifties and Sixties, it was accepted that teams from pit villages would have, if not a preponderance, an imbalance of left-handers.
The received explanation was that left-handed hewers were an asset in the days of cutting thin seams with pick and shovel.
Perhaps Durham University has an interesting research project on its doorstep - if it can act quickly, of course.
Yours faithfully,
J. GORDON BROWN
South Shields, Tyne & Wear
15 February
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