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Sticky Dogs and Stardust: When the Legends Played in the Leagues
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Scott Oliver

Sticky Dogs and Stardust

When the Legends Played in the Leagues

Scott Oliver

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English
Fairfield Books
17 April 2023
Cricket
The golden age of this type of story has now passed. The reasons are obvious. Chief among them is the

earning power of top players, both from central contracts and on the franchise Twenty20 circuit, as well

as the fact that international and franchise schedules increasingly impinge upon the UK summer.

These stories are not entirely obsolete, however, although they will most often involve players taking their

first steps on the road to superstardom, future stars before they became household names. Then there are

players in the twilight of their careers, if not former stars then certainly with their highest peaks behind

them. And between the springtime baby steps and the autumnal last knockings, there are a clutch of chapters

involving cricketers in their high-summer pomp, living legends treading the league cricket boards.

These magical stories are unique to cricket. And yet no one has collected them in one place. Until now.
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Imprint:   Fairfield Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781915237262
ISBN 10:   1915237262
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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. A regular contributor of football longforms to The Blizzard, Mundial and The Ringer, cricket is nevertheless his first love. He has written hundreds of pieces on a multitude of topics – some about the superstar overseas pros featured in this book – 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. This is his first book.

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