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WI role in English league cricket
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Before English county cricket, Caribbean cricketers plied their trade and honed their skills in clubs around the country.
From the 1920s, the league circuit became a home away from home for such luminaries as (Sir) Garfield Sobers, (Sir) Everton Weekes, (Lord) Learie Constantine, Andy Roberts and the fearsome Roy Gilchrist. And there was always pressure to perform as the paid stars of the club sides. English journalist Harry Pearson has just written a book - Slipless in Settle - about village cricket in England. He has been talking to Jonathan Agnew, the BBC's cricket correspondent, about some of the West Indian influences. Hear about Constantine's shock at seeing white people doing menial jobs, Roberts' debut in the snow and the mayhem that Gilchrist created.
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