Gideon Haigh looks at the players then and now.
George Bailey, Australia’s batsman of the moment and locum captain, is an excellent cricketer. He also has a heritage surprisingly relevant to some of the discontents swirling in this country’s cricket.
One hundred and thirty-six years ago, Bailey’s great-great-grandfather, also George Bailey, was picked as one of a dozen antipodean cricketers to undertake a tour of England, the first of its kind.
Earlier that year…
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