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‘I’m getting away from the sun’: when Garry Sobers took his talents to Stoke
Learie Constantine was the first West Indian superstars to light up the English cricket leagues. He drew five-figure crowds to Nelson in the 1930s, steered them to seven Lancashire League titles in nine years and later became the UK’s first black peer. The …