It was written by Jack London and adapted for Special English by Dona de Sanctis.
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He disliked an excessively pedagogic approach to teaching English - "Give them Jack the Giant Killer and Tom Thumb", he wrote, "and then let them have Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver".
On Sunday, Strauss and Cook surpassed Herbert Sutcliffe and Jack Hobbs as the most prolific opening partnership in English cricket history, an achievement of which they should be proud.