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12 June, 2025

A Summer of Cricket – Following a Junior Cricket Club Season

By Ibraar Hussain

12 June, 2025

/ Documentary Photography, Sports Photography, /

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Ibraar Hussain on A Summer of Cricket – Following a Junior Cricket Club Season
I’m not a fan of hackney, I’m surprised you’ve tolerated it for as long as you have ! Lower Clapton…
Ibraar Hussain on A Summer of Cricket – Following a Junior Cricket Club Season
Dear John That’s the nicest thing and the most highest compliment anyone has ever said to or about me ever.…
Geoff Chaplin on A Summer of Cricket – Following a Junior Cricket Club Season
Nicely documented and written article about my most loathed sport. More interestingly I like you have lived in Hackney, me…

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