It's Samuel Becket who played county cricket. I can't remember which county,
but he does appear in Wisden.
Judith Flanders
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeffery D. Lewins <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 29 December 1999 10:38
Subject: Re: Kipling/Cricket
> Here are some intriguing Laureate possibilities. One should not rule out
> non-english sounding names of course. Perhaps Indian/Pakhistan are
> possible.
> But of the more obvious names consider:
>
> Kipling 1907
> WB Yeats 1923
> GB Shaw 1925
> Thomas Mann 1929
> Sinclair Lewis 1930
> John Galsworthy 1932
> Eugene O'Neil 1936
> Pearl S Buck 1938!
> TS Eliot 1948
> Bertrand Russell 1950
> Winston Churchill 1953
> Hemingway 1954
> Steinbeck 1962
> Sartre 1964
> Samuel Beckett 1969
> Saul Bellow 1974
>
> I go for Glasworthy Universitry of Oxford (New College) where he might
have
> had a chance in the University team to play first class cricket.
>
> Jeffery Lewins
>
> -Original Message-----
> >From: Paul Johnston <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> >Date: 28 December 1999 21:05
> >Subject: Re: Kipling/Cricket
> >
> >
> >>The reason I ask is that I am trying to find out which person won the
Nobel
> >>Prize for Literature and played first class cricket. Any help would be
> >>appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> >>>From: "John Radcliffe" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>>To: "Paul Johnston" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>>CC: "Kipling Mailbase" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>>Subject: Re: Kipling/Cricket
> >>>Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 19:33:24 -0000
>
> >>> Did Kipling ever play first class cricket?
>
>
> from Jeffery Lewins
> Magdalene College &
> Engineering Department
> Cambridge CB3 0AG UK
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