Cricket whites are read backwards here: the ivory flannels matter, but the world they live on is the green — the mown outfield of an English summer ground, where a red leather ball and a gentleman's serif hierarchy sit against grass. The page is that dark playing-field green. Ecru flannel becomes panel and text, not ground. The club's scarlet-and-gold "egg-and-bacon" trim survives only as a thin accent line, the way an MCC tie wears its stripes. Period serifs, mown-stripe banding, ball-seam curves — a heritage editorial system, not a nostalgia costume.