Scott Oliver turned to freelance features writing in 2012 after completing an arduous PhDon 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 TheBlizzard, Mundial and The Ringer, cricket is nevertheless his first love. He has written hundreds of pieces ona multitude of topics for ESPNcricinfo, Cricbuzz, the Cricketer and Wisden Cricket Monthly, for whom he hasbeen club cricket correspondent since its 2017 re-launch, compiling the much-loved "Club Cricket Hall ofFame" series. This is his second book, a follow-up to last year's Sticky Dogs and Stardust.

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Scott Oliver turned to freelance features writing in 2012 after completing an arduous PhDon 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 TheBlizzard, Mundial and The Ringer, cricket is nevertheless his first love. He has written hundreds of pieces ona multitude of topics for ESPNcricinfo, Cricbuzz, the Cricketer and Wisden Cricket Monthly, for whom he hasbeen club cricket correspondent since its 2017 re-launch, compiling the much-loved "Club Cricket Hall ofFame" series. This is his second book, a follow-up to last year's Sticky Dogs and Stardust.

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