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Allahakbarries was an
amateur cricket team
founded by
author J. M. Barrie, and was
active from 1887 to 1913. The team's name was a
portmanteau of Barrie's...
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friends of
similarly limited playing ability, and
named it the
Allahakbarries under the
mistaken belief that "Allah akbar"
meant "Heaven help us"...
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Cricket Club (MCC). He also pla**** for the
amateur cricket teams the
Allahakbarries and the
Authors XI
alongside fellow writers J. M. Barrie, P. G. Wodehouse...
- The
original Authors Cricket Club was an
offshoot of J.M. Barrie's
Allahakbarries team. It also drew some of its
membership from the Authors' Club, which...
- was an
occasional cricketer and pla**** in
matches with J. M. Barrie's
Allahakbarries XI. At the
beginning of 1884,
having completed his training, he left...
- two
amateur teams that were
largely composed of
British writers: the
Allahakbarries and the
Authors XI. His
teammates included fellow writers J. M. Barrie...
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literary figures in
author J. M. Barrie's
amateur cricket team, the "
Allahakbarries". He died
following a
stroke of
paralysis at St. Petersburg,
while on...
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billiards as well as cricket. He was a
member of J. M. Barrie's team the "
Allahakbarries",
along with
Henry Herbert La
Thangue and
Arthur Conan Doyle. Rupert...
- pla****
cricket with
teams of fellow-writers,
including J. M. Barrie's
Allahakbarries team and the
Authors Cricket Club. In the 1890s, he
captained a team...
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Selincourt and
Arthur Conan Doyle,
playing for
either the "Punch XI" or the
Allahakbarries,
whose name, said Barrie,
derived from the
Arabic invocation meaning...