Sticky Dogs and Stardust – The Second Innings

The second instalment of Sticky Dogs and Stardust, Scott Oliver’s award-winning collection of stories about superstar cricketers’ stints in league cricket.

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A follow-up to 2023’s Wisden Book of the Year winner, Sticky Dogs and Stardust: When the Legends Played in the Leagues –  The Second Innings is another cache of fascinating and – in many cases – previously untold stories documenting the experiences of superstar cricketers playing for recreational teams.

The stars featured include Australian heavyweights Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Travis Head and Dennis Lillee, West Indian icons Michael Holding, Andy Roberts and Joel Garner, cult heroes such as Jesse Ryder and even the leading Test wicket-taker of all time, Muthiah Muralidaran. Fittingly, there’s also a foreword by one of England cricket’s most iconic and best-loved figures, David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd.

Unlike other sports, 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.

About the author: 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 EuropeanNew StatesmanVICE and others. A regular contributor of football longforms to The BlizzardMundial and The Ringer, cricket is nevertheless his first love. He has written hundreds of pieces on a multitude of topics for ESPNcricinfoCricbuzz, 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 second book, a follow-up to 2023’s Sticky Dogs and Stardust.

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