Cricket and its arcana and statistics, its tragics and eccentrics and its historical resonances as tool of empire, comfort of dying men in trenches and POW camps with its elegiac pastoralism of flickering figures and matches past, Wisdens fingered like Bibles and held together with rice-paste in Burmese hellholes; Pimm's at Lord's and the bacon & egg tie, my afternoons on your outfields and my humble contributions to your Almanack: I will always have a soft spot for you. And for this small anthology, too. I love it when my obsessions collide. #hauntedpavilions #markvalentine #johngale #jonathanwood #rbrussell #cricket #ghoststories #shortfiction #smallpress #summergame #demonbowlers #testcricket #lords #villagecricket #pastoral #homeofcricket #engvsa #wisdenalmanack #ewswanton #johnarlott #beldamandfry #nevillecardus #clrjames #cricketliterature #cricketbooks #bookporn #bibliophilia
