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England cricket team proves British Asians have passed Norman Tebbit’s test

British Asian Zafar Ansari batting for England against India
British Asian Zafar Ansari batting for England against India in Rajkot, November 2016. Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP

Ali Martin notes that the England cricket team currently includes four Muslims of Asian ancestry (Sport, 16 November). Many of us are old enough to remember Norman Tebbit’s “cricket test”, which was used to imply that Asians, and perhaps Muslims in particular, might not be quite British enough. Can we agree that the cricket test, if it was ever valid, has been definitively passed?
Athar Yawar
London

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