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For the first time, these questions have been answered in this booklet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delivered with a reproduction of the cricket.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-423 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.d-day-publishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image0-removebg-preview-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.d-day-publishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image0-removebg-preview-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.d-day-publishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image0-removebg-preview-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.d-day-publishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image0-removebg-preview-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.d-day-publishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image0-removebg-preview.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-215","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-general","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>THE LEGENDARY CRICKET OF D-DAY - DDay Publishing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.d-day-publishing.com\/produit\/the-legendary-cricket-of-d-day-en\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[:fr]Le l\u00e9gendaire Cricket du Jour-J[:en]THE LEGENDARY CRICKET OF D-DAY[:] - DDay Publishing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[:fr]Qui a lanc\u00e9 le cricket, o\u00f9 a-t-il \u00e9t\u00e9 produit et qui l&#039;a produit ? 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