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Sticky Dogs and Stardust (2)
Sticky Dogs and Stardust (2)
Sticky Dogs and Stardust (2)

Product details

Published March 17 2025
ISBN 978-1-915237-43-9
Format Hardback, eBook
Pages 336 + 12 colour plates
Dimensions 234 × 156 mm

Sticky Dogs and Stardust (2)

When The Legends Played in the Leagues – The Second Innings

Scott Oliver

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More tales of cricketing legends making their mark in club cricket.

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Description

A follow-up to 2023’s award-winning Sticky Dogs and Stardust, the ‘second innings’ is another cache of fascinating and – in many cases – previously untold stories documenting the experiences of superstar cricketers playing for recreational teams.

The stars featured include Australian heavyweights Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Travis Head and Dennis Lillee, West Indian icons Michael Holding, Andy Roberts and Joel Garner, cult heroes such as Jesse Ryder and even the leading Test wicket-taker of all time, Muttiah Muralitharan. Fittingly, there’s also a foreword by one of England cricket’s most iconic and best-loved figures, David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd.

Unlike other sports, cricket – and especially the club cricket of England and the British Isles – allows recreational players to rub shoulders with international stars and even superstars in a fully competitive context, providing them with some of the most cherished memories of their lives. These magical stories are unique to cricket. And yet no one has collected them in one place. Until now.

The first volume of Sticky Dogs and Stardust was named the Wisden Book of the Year in 2024, also earning Oliver the title of JM Kilburn Cricket Writer of the Year and nominations for the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year 2024, and the Sports Book Awards 2024.

Praise for Sticky Dogs and Stardust (2)

Oliver writes with a novelist's verve, always trying to conjure a phrase with a hawk's eye for detail.
Richard Hobson, The Cricketer
Every cricket fan needs this on their bookshelf. It is as simple as that.
Steve Dolman, Derbyshire Cricket – Peakfan's blog
Scott Oliver's series is building into a magnum opus of love from and for the leagues... Some of [the cricket described] is so lovingly rendered that you genuinely wish you had been boundary-side to watch a long-forgotten contest of epic, unimportant intensity.
Jon Hotten, Wisden Cricket Monthly
There might have been a touch of ‘second season syndrome’ about The Second Innings of Sticky Dogs and Stardust, but fortunately there has been no question of that ... I can see this absorbing series of books continuing for many years yet.
Martin Chandler, Cricket Web
Hot on the heels, relatively, of an excellent first tome the second edition proves just as enjoyable and absorbing as its older sibling with plenty of great tales, informative characters and glorious insights.
Hector Cappelletti, Yahoo over Cow Corner

About the Author

Scott Oliver turned to freelance features writing in 2012 after completing an arduous PhD on Peronist Argentina – mainly about sport, although he has written on culture and politics for the Guardian, the New European, New Statesman, VICE and others. He has written hundreds of pieces on a multitude of topics for ESPNcricinfo, Cricbuzz, the Cricketer and Wisden Cricket Monthly, for whom he has been club cricket correspondent since its 2017 re-launch, compiling the much-loved “Club Cricket Hall of Fame” series. Sticky Dogs and Stardust won the 2023 Wisden Book of the Year.

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