A SPIRIT OF nostalgia infused the atmosphere at the Dover Sports Complex in Christ Church last Thursday evening when local organisers of the Oldie Goldies World Cricket Festival 2017 put on an exhibition of indigenous forms of the sport.
The venue, the official “Festival Village”, was abuzz with activity from early evening as players and fans gathered to take in the spectacle.
It featured a softball cricket match between two teams drawn from the national women’s squad, a tapeball cricket match and a demonstration of the now extinct “marble” or “kneeling down” cricket, a popular version of the game played widely in the island until the early 1970s.
However, the excitement reached its crescendo with the assembly of a number of local cricket legends, some of whom are universally regarded as among the greatest exponents in the history of the game. (WH)
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