Q.1 Summarize the passage into about one-third of its length in your own words. (10 Marks)We do not judge a cricketer so much by the runs he gets as by the way he gets them. “Inliterature as in finance,” says Washington Irving, “much paper and much poverty may co-exist.”And in cricket too many runs and much dullness may be associated. If cricket is menaced withcreeping paralysis, it is because it is losing the spirit of joyous adventure and becoming a mereinstrument for compiling tables of averages. There are dull, mechanic fellows who turn out runswith as little emotion as a machine turns out pins. There is no colour, no enthusiasm, and nocharacter in their play. Cricket is not an adventure to them; it is a business. It was so withShrewsbury. His technical perfection was astonishing; but the soul of the game was wanting inhim. There was no sunshine in his play, no swift surprise or splendid unselfishness. And withoutthese things, without gaiety, daring, and the spirit of sacrifice cricket is a dead thing.​