In this quiz, you have to answer ten questions on cricket’s connections with the aeroplane.
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From tossing ball up to hitting it in the air, cricket has always had its flight connections and cliches – but the mode of transport did not entice them until the Second World War. Teams had flown before then, it was only in the post-War era that air travel truly revolutionised the cricket tour by slashing travel time and making touring easier.
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Travel by water, once the norm, went out of vogue in the 1960s. Now, barring very short-distance journeys on land, cricket travel at the highest level is invariably by air.
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