No other sport offers up stories quite like the ones collected in Scott Oliver’s Sticky Dogs & Stardust series. 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.
These magical stories are unique to cricket. And yet no one has collected them in one place. Until now. Across two bumper volumes (with two more in the pipeline) author Scott Oliver has crafted a cache of fascinating and – in many cases – previously untold stories documenting the experiences of superstar cricketers playing for recreational teams.
The first volume of Sticky Dogs and Stardust was named the Wisden Book of the Year in 2024, also earning author Scott 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.
Book 2 (The Second Innings) was published in March 2025 and book three is scheduled for publication in Spring 2026.
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Sticky Dogs And Stardust (1)
Featuring…
- Adam Gilchrist at Richmond
- Gordon Greenidge and Malcolm Marshall at Leyland
- Viv Richards at Rishton
- Jacques Kallis at Old Edwardians and Netherfield
- Mohammad Azharuddin and friends at Rishton
- Garry Sobers at Norton
- Andre Russell at Barnards Green
- Wasim Akram at Smethwick
- Shane Warne at Accrington
- Shane Bond at Furness
- Courtney Walsh at Tynedale
- Matt Hayden and Mark Taylor at Greenmount
- Mark Waugh at Egerton
- VVS Laxman at Pudsey Congs and Hanging Heaton
- Kevin Pietersen at Cannock
- AB de Villiers at Carrickfergus
- Steve Waugh at Nelson
- Shahid Afridi at Little Stoke and Leek
- Kapil Dev at Nelson
- Allan Donald at Rishton
- Curtly Ambrose at Chester Boughton Hall and Heywood
- Imran Tahir at Moddershall
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Sticky Dogs and Stardust (2)
Featuring…
- Jesse Ryder at New Brighton
- Rohan Kanhai / Lance Gibbs at Ashington / Whitburn (and Aberdeenshire, Blackpool, Crompton, St Annes / Burnley)
- Kim Hughes & Terry Alderman at Watsonians
- Richie Richardson at Thames Ditton, Blackpool, Gateshead Fell, Swansea and Burnmoor
- Marnus Labuschagne – Steve Smith – Travis Head at Plymouth, Sandwich – Sevenoaks Vine – Ventnor
- Mohammad Yousuf at Bowling Old Lane, Pudsey Congs and Smethwick
- Chris Cairns / Ryan Harris at Bacup / Lowerhouse
- Muthiah Muralidaran at Leicester Ivanhoe
- Abdul Qadir (and Imran Khan) at Hanging Heaton and Stenhousemuir (and Wakefield)
- Dennis Lillee at Haslingden
- Joel Garner at Littleborough, Moorside and Glastonbury
- Morne Morkel / Mohammad Asif at Endon / Ashcombe Park
- Michael Holding / Andy Roberts at Rishton / Haslingden