'Rare, clever, creative ... a maverick, pushing boundaries with outrageous jokes'

Guardian

'Crammed with sharp observation, comic and cruel characterisation and a great many very good jokes... Gloriously funny and life-affirming'

Daily Telegraph

'Surely the funniest book ever written about the English addiction to cricket...a beautiful tale of classic British humour, self-deprecation, great courage'

Daily Mail

'Even people who despise cricket will adore this'

Times

'Isn't only a marvellous read but in many ways captures the very essence of the game'

Observer

'Very funny . . .he fills his warm-hearted book with a satisfying selection of tales'

Sunday Times

'Funny and inspiring...Thompson writes with a novelist's sympathy about a wonderfully mixed bunch of characters' - Hugh Massingberd

Literary Review

'As funny as you would expect from the writer of Have I Got News For You'

Daily Express

'Harry Thompson wrote with such verve and wit that he could have made a trip round a multi-storey car park into an adventure'

Celia Brayfield, The Times

'A very funny, peculiarly British travel book'

Markus Berkman, Daily Mail

'A rip-roaring and at times touching account of a global tour by a bunch of village cricketers'

Oxford Mail