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One of my friends has actually just come back from New York where she was on the Commission trying to produce a resolution on violence against women. At least one of the national delegates apparently threatened the rest of the team with eternal retribution, you know the sort of thing, because apparently civilisation will end if we stop beating women. When I set out to write The Vagaries of Swing, it was just a collection of cricketing stories, but the murder drew me into a different thought process. Now I think that men have to begin standing in line alongside the women in order to try to expose the shame. I don't want a society that is politically correct or that lacks humour but we have to change the culture.

'''To paraphrase Voltaire, if cricket did not exist, would it be necessary to invent it?'''