Eleven Gallery

Cricket Blazers by Fougasse

This is the photograph of our cricket eleven; but I cannot think it really...does us justice. A world of colour neglected by black and white photography - gaudily striped cricket blazers as pictured by the cartoonist Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird 1887-1965). Date: 1932

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Cricket team in blazers by Fougasse

"This is the photograph of our cricket eleven, but I cannot think it really - does us justice." A cricket team suddenly look very different when a colour image reveals the rainbow spectrum of their striped blazers. Illustration by Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird). Date: 1932

© Yevonde Portrait Archive/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

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England Cricket Team, Lord's, 1896

England Cricket Team, Lord's, 1896.
1896

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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