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However daft English cricket gets, there’ll always be Wisden’s obituaries

This year: Richard Attenborough, Clarissa Dickson Wright, and a late appearance for opening batsman Bobby Moore

18 April 2015

9:00 AM

18 April 2015

9:00 AM

He’s a tall man, Kevin Pietersen, and he casts a long shadow. It loomed large over the Long Room at Lord’s last week where the great, the good, and the not very good at all of the cricket world had gathered for the annual Wisden dinner, one of the most enjoyable events in the life of man.

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Roger Alton is executive editor of the Times.

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