Echoing GreensThe importance of cricket to England has been immortalised in the art and literature of a thousand years. For countless artists and writers across the centuries, the culture and aesthetics of cricketwhite clad players, the crack of bat on ball, booming appeals, admiring applause, figures running up to bowl, batsmen leaning, waiting, swinging the bladehave been as essential to the English landscape as the hills and meadows immortalised by Gainsborough,