Ben Travers

Ben Travers AFC CBE (12 November 1886 – 18 December 1980) was a British playwright most famous for his farces.

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• Nothing that the law-makers or the law-breakers or the MCC or the Board of Control or any conferences or county committees or pressmen or captains or players can do to it or have done to it over the years - nothing can affect cricket's basic worth or irresistible attraction.
  • The Infatuee, included in The Cricketer's Bedside Book (1966)