More than coincidences of timing relate the events too. But events behind the scenes there would ensure that cricket was a game divided by the time the anniversary recurred. Nothing in cricket could have been quite so traditional as the Centenary Test, a birthday party for the game’s Anglo-Australian axis hosted in March on the site of the inaugural 11-a-side fixture involving English and Australian teams. Elvis and Groucho Marx died Psy and John Oliver were born. The French retired the guillotine Americans launched the Apple II. ‘God Save the Queen’ played all over the country: for patriots in the Queen’s Jubilee for punks by the Sex Pistols. 1977 is a year that can be read both backwards and forwards.
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