The finest strokes at South Ken

THE Cricket, Tennis and Traditional Sports sale at Christie’s South Kensington on June 22 saw a hammer total of £87,355 from the 163-lot offering. Yet nearly three quarters of this figure came from the two top lots alone, hence the sold by value figure of 63 per cent was noticeably higher than the sold by lot figure of 51 per cent.

The highest price was the £32,000 paid for Sir Garfield Sobers' 1958 cricket bat with which he score…

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