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1 wrote what is probably one of the finest books on sport ever written, which is the origin of a famous phrase in a particular sport. This phrase was inspired by a line in one of the works of the Nobel Prize winner 2. Give me 1 and 2

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Answer = 1 is C.L.R. James, who wrote the awesome book “Beyond a Boundary“, which popularised the phrase “What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?” It was inspired by a line from Rudyard Kipling’s (2) poem “The English Flag“, which had the line “what should they know of England who only England know?”