Howzat! Cricket Gets Literary Spin, Faulks Leads Authors
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Writers are not famed for their athleticism. Yet according to novelist Sebastian Faulks, there is one sport that’s made for them: cricket.
“Amateur cricketers tend to be vain, anecdotal, passionate, knowledgeable, neurotic and given to fantasy,” he says in the foreword to “The Authors XI,” a whimsical new collection of essays by cricketing authors. “So do writers.”