Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts. I'm John Bachelor this is the Friends of History

debating society. I'm a John Bachelor, this is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm a student of Cricket. I don't play it. I never did play it.

But I've decided late in life to study the fascination of Cricket and Jeremy is one of those young people who did play

cricket who knows it intimately as to many Australians and many people around the world, English-speaking peoples in all

countries. However, I now moved from the rules to observing the game, to

understanding the scoring, to understanding the scoring,

to something called the beautiful batsman.

Jeremy, what is the beautiful batsman?

I read these articles where people have favorites

dating back to the 1950s the 1970s as if they're iconic

characters what does it mean well John it basically means as is the name

implies a beautiful player so it's a batsman and

cricket somebody who's very much got the prowess and the the posture and

and basically the batting style that just is very pleasing to look at and not only very

pleasing to look at but also scores a lot of runs relatively quickly but isn't done in such a way that

it looks gaily or it looks like it's very unnerving or uneven.

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