As both sport and light music have a primary entertainment function it is natural to connect the two.
Music was important to the Hambledon Club; John Nyren, its Laureate and the Cardus of his era, was himself a musician.
Other cricketing music was heard in the theatres which proliferated in the provinces from 1750 onwards or, later, in the music halls which reached their zenith in the late Victorian period.
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