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At Melbourne in 1876/77, Alfred Shaw bowled the first ball in the history of Test cricket. In his reminiscences, he wrote about August 12, 1894, when Lord Sheffield’s tour party was resting in the archipelago of Svalbard.

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The group was “nestling in the bosom of a peaceful ice fjord at midnight, with the Arctic sun at its lowest point lighting up the snow-clad mountains and the magnificent glaciers around us”. Sheffield suggested a cricket match at this point. “Between a quarter to twelve and half past twelve I had bowled out practically all the gentlemen passengers and officers, certainly 40 persons all told,” recalled Shaw.

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This was by no means the last cricket match played with spectacular mountains in the backdrop. Not too far away from the gorgeous cricket ground at Dharamshala is Chail, a hill station that boasts of the highest cricket ground in the world. Of course, cricket has been played at even higher altitudes...

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