Over the years, cricket coaches have tried everything from hypnosis to biomechanical analysis to improve their players' skills. But the St Peter's Cricket Club is perhaps the first ever to be prescribed a daily hour of Eucharistic devotion while touring.
On 12 September a party of Vatican priests, deacons and seminarians will leave Rome for what is arguably the papacy's most daring incursion on English soil since St Augustine arrived in AD597 – a four-match tour of the country that gave the world cricket and Henry VIII.
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