Th e Perils of Cricket The English are often accused of
taking their pleasures SadlY and, so it follows, their cricket too seriously. But in this ether peoples are well in the lead. Dr. Jagan did not get his ..expected welcome home to Georgetown because many of his 110wers could not tear themselves away from the MCC's match with British Guiana. They did not leave their politics outside ,the ground, though. Not even the controversial body- ine matches in Australia twenty-odd years ago could elicit from the The Times such headlines as ' Bottles in the Outfield.' have umpire's decision which set the bottles flying seems to been correct enough. And so the riotous crowd did not even have a reasonable resentment to excuse them. The perils of cricket in this part of the world are plainly formidable. Now til ane MCC must be seriously considering whether the visit of uniEnglish cricket team to the West Indies would be an unjustifiably dangerous risk. Perhaps Dr. Jagan had the best of it after all.
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