Village Cricket

by Tim Heald

To investigate the past and present of village cricket, Tim Heald set off on a tour that took him from Cornwall to Lancashire, from the cradle of cricket in Kent and Sussex to Lord's itself. Tim tells the story of a match in each village he visits as a mix of history and anecdote about the "grass roots." He even returns from retirement to venture on to the field of play.

258 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2004

About the author

Tim Heald (b. 1944) is a journalist and author of mysteries. Born in Dorchester, England, he studied modern history at Oxford before becoming a reporter and columnist for the Sunday Times. He began writing novels in the early 1970s, starting with Unbecoming Habits (1973), which introduced Simon Bognor, a defiantly lazy investigator for the British Board of Trade. Heald followed Bognor through nine more novels, including Murder at Moose Jaw (1981) and Business Unusual (1989) before taking a two-decade break from the series, which returned in 2011 with Death in the Opening Chapter.

Reviews

[Chris Lucas]

A lovely book - a must read for village cricketers, anthropologists, historians, sociologists, psychologists and those curious about the peculiarities of the British.

[Duncan]

Love any book about cricket but this was especially nice. All away from the big teams and just as it should be