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The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon by The Authors Cricket Club

agray002's review

4.0

As someone who is only vaguely familiar with the very basics of cricket, I was surprised at how much I liked this beautiful love letter to the sport. Each chapter details a match and the writer's musing on a topic relating to cricket. Stand out chapters for me were James Holland's "Field of Dreams", Matthew Parker's "Empire State of Mind", Tom Holland's "Youth and Age", Kamila Shamsie's "The Women's XI" and my absolute favorite was Nicholas Hogg's "Cricket and Home". (And, of course, as a fan of the show, I greatly enjoyed Dan Stevens's "Edwardian Cricket and Downton Abbey").