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Sticky Dogs And Stardust (1)
Sticky Dogs And Stardust (1)
Sticky Dogs And Stardust (1)
Sticky Dogs And Stardust (1)

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Published 29 May 2023
ISBN 978-1-915237-26-2
Format Hardback, Hardback Signed, eBook
Pages 286
Dimensions 234 × 156 mm

Sticky Dogs And Stardust (1)

When the Legends Played in the Leagues

Scott Oliver

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Tales of cricketing legends making their mark in club cricket.

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WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR – Winner
JM KILBURN CRICKET WRITER OF THE YEAR – Winner
CRICKET SOCIETY/MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR – Shortlisted
SPORTS BOOK AWARDS – Shortlisted

No other sport offers up stories quite like the ones collected in these pages. Only 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.

Featuring Adam Gilchrist, Gordon Greenidge, Malcolm Marshall, Viv Richards, Jacques Kallis, Mohammad Azharuddin, Garry Sobers, Andre Russell, Wasim Akram, Shane Warne, Shane Bond, Courtney Walsh, Matt Hayden, Mark Taylor, Mark Waugh, VVS Laxman, Kevin Pietersen, AB de Villiers, Steve Waugh, Shahid Afridi, Kapil Dev, Allan Donald, Curtly Ambrose, Imran Tahir.

With stories from the Lancashire League, Birmingham League, Bradford League, Bolton League, Northern League, North Staffs League, Northumberland League and Middlesex League, as well as Cumbria and Northern Ireland.

Praise for Sticky Dogs And Stardust (1)

"The [Book of the Year award] goes to Sticky Dogs and Stardust, for its fund of astonishing stories, which would have remained untold without Scott Oliver’s labours, and for the élan and verve of his writing... [He] clearly has a profound understanding of and love for the local game [and] has done a magnificent job researching and recovering these stories, delving into mildewed scorebooks, interviewing teammates and opponents."
Anthony McGowan, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack
"Been a big fan of Scott Oliver for a long time. Great attention to detail for cricket allied to fun gossip. The David Foster Wallace of cricket. His book, Sticky dogs and Stardust, is a delight. Couldn’t recommend it more."
George Dobell, The Cricketer
"This book was a cracking idea."
Martin Chandler, Cricket Web
"This book is a gem. Reading and relishing this labour of love from freelance journalist and club cricketer Scott Oliver, one can easily understand why it was shortlisted for The Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award... The rollercoaster ride to a seasonal climax is so grippingly well written that it rivals the best ever writing about social cricket in Hugh de Selincourt’s The Cricket Match or AG McDonnell’s England Their England."
Philip Fisher, Cricket Society Journal
"A rip-roaring journey through league cricket full of heart-warming stories, tales of derring-do and some brilliantly absurd anecdotes […] A passion to tell these stories leaps off every page like a Curtly Ambrose bouncer."
Timothy Abraham, The Cricketer
"Scott should be proud – not only that he won the Wisden Book of the Year award, but for showing that obsessively researched, high-class writing about niche subjects still knocks everything else clean out of the Narendra Modi Stadium."
Rob Smyth
"It’s a wonderful book… congenially written [but a work of impressive] scholarship."
Daniel Norcross
"A beautiful fusion between club cricket and the stars who light it up. Scott’s skill as a writer shines through as does his research."
John Fuller, Cricket Yorkshire
"A cracking read."
Graeme Swann

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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