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Matt Thacker: Snow business at Buxton Cricket Club

By Matt Thacker
You might be able to remember the long, hot summer of 1976. Parched lawns, bleached cricket grounds, Michael Holding loose-limbing in to blow England away at The Oval.
But did you know 1975 was almost as hot a summer, with average temperatures breaking all known records up to that point.
The inaugural men’s World Cup was played in glorious June sunshine, but at the start of the month up in Derbyshire you would have got long odds on that.
May had been chilly, sure but day one of Derbyshire v Lancashire, Saturday 31 May, at the Park Road ground in Buxton – England’s highest ...

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