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at Hove. From an overnight position of 330/3 in the first innings, chasing a Sussex score of 387, Yorkshire continued on the Friday morning and totalled 392 all out. Sussex collapsed in their second innings and were all out for only 33, whereupon
Yorkshire made 30–1 to win by nine wickets. That ended
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Australia in 1942–43, 1943–44 or 1944–45.
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put it, "(enable) cricket to provide a healthy and restful antidote to war strain". Warner played a major role in organising cricket during the war as, with other MCC staff joining the services, he took on the
Secretary's duties under the title of "Deputy Assistant Secretary". His first priority was
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England in 1939 left the country in late August when it became clear that the outbreak of war was imminent. On Tuesday, 22 August, they had just drawn against England at The Oval to complete the third of a three-match Test series. Their next scheduled match, against
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in the 1939–40 season but it was cancelled for the duration before the 1940–41 season. Inter-service matches were staged during the war when possible and some of these had first-class status. Towards the end of the war, an increasing number of inter-provincial matches were held ahead of the
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was subsequently bombed and the club effectively closed for the duration, directing all members' subscriptions into a war relief fund. Other county clubs closed at the outset and appealed to the members to keep paying their subscriptions as a future investment. This policy had varying success with
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was its mainstay. These teams were first established in 1940 and played one-day charity matches, mostly in the south-east and often at Lord's. Although the teams were successful in raising money for charity, their main purpose was to help sustain morale.
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Saturday, 2 September but all were delayed due to the emergency and then cancelled after the
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1064:, but fortunately without casualties and the damage was not serious. The best known instance of bombing at Lord's occurred during a July 1944 match between the Army and the RAF, which was temporarily interrupted when a
1032:. The idea was that home-based servicemen and those in reserved occupations would play when time allowed, but it was not realistic and MCC declined to take it forward. This was in early 1940, during the so-called "
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England and representing Sussex in four matches in 1930. Caple gave the view that Rubie had a "vast and profound knowledge of Indian cricket". However, Rubie died on 3 November 1939.
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Germany in the aftermath of the British declaration and, as in Australia, initially decided on a policy of "business as usual" to uphold public morale. This included continuation of the
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was cancelled before the 1939–40 season and was in fact never revived after the war, although the first-class teams continued to play each other when possible. It was not until the launch of the
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for the military. Between 9 and 11 December 1941 the state cricket associations of South Australia, Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales decided at meetings with new Prime Minister
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was stripped bare with its treasures safely stored below ground". Having painted a bleak picture thus far, Altham ended on a note of defiance: "but the turf was a wondrous green,
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competition "for the morale of the people". In 1940–41, however, the Sheffield Shield was not contested but ten first-class “friendly” matches were played between the States for
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commented that there was "none of the unfortunate disposition to linger over it as in 1914". Cricket in 1939 accepted the inevitable, summarised in the September 1939 issue of
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on the Grand Stand roof was gazing serenely at the nearest (barrage) balloon and one felt that somehow it would take more than totalitarian war to put an end to cricket".
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reviewed the 1939 season and remarked that it was "like peeping through the wrong end of a telescope at a very small but happy world".
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landed nearby. The players threw themselves to the ground and then carried on playing after the explosion. On resumption,
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