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Jamaica: Worst Test Cricket Loss in 50 Years

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
Posted 31 May 2007 12:28 GMT

“Sometimes I wonder if we should just drop cricket like we're dropping the sugar industry. Both are vestiges of colonialism. But I dare not say this aloud…'cause, unlike the sugar industry, cricket swims in our very blood.” Jamaican Leon Robinson is disappointed in the West Indies’ performance against England.

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