Pls send the summary of the chapter "THE VILLAGE CRICKET "
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"A Village Cricket Match" is actually a chapter from England, Their England though it is sometimes read by itself as a stand-alone story. The main theme of the story begins in the preceding chapter at a weekend party in the country where English public schools enter the conversation. In England, public schools are the elite schools like Eaton, which Princes William and Henry attended. The conversational assertion is that public schools form England's great gentlemen.
"The public school," agreed Sir Ethelred, "is the breeding-ground of great men."
Grasping the theme is helped by understanding the focalization of the story: who focuses the reader's attention on who through whom. The narrator tells the story from an involved third-person point of view. He is objective though not without involved ironic comment. The narrator's story is about Donald, who is introduced in the early part of England, Their England as a Scotsman sent out by terms of his father's will to explore the world.
Donald is trying to understand the English, who are to be distinguished from the Scots. This quest of Donald's is relevant to the theme because it ties into his accumulating idea of the English gentleman, trained and nurtured at public school.
The central theme is brought out during the cricket match the weekend following the weekend party in the country. At the match Donald observes and the narrator comments upon the strengths, weakness, oddities and nobilities of the collection of gentlemen assembled to defend their wickets and make runs. Some of these illustrative theme revealing instances stand out most interestingly.