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WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR – Winner
JM KILBURN CRICKET WRITER OF THE YEAR – Winner
CRICKET SOCIETY/MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR – Shortlisted
SPORTS BOOK AWARDS – Shortlisted
No other sport offers up stories quite like the ones collected in these pages. Only 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.
Featuring Adam Gilchrist, Gordon Greenidge, Malcolm Marshall, Viv Richards, Jacques Kallis, Mohammad Azharuddin, Garry Sobers, Andre Russell, Wasim Akram, Shane Warne, Shane Bond, Courtney Walsh, Matt Hayden, Mark Taylor, Mark Waugh, VVS Laxman, Kevin Pietersen, AB de Villiers, Steve Waugh, Shahid Afridi, Kapil Dev, Allan Donald, Curtly Ambrose, Imran Tahir.
With stories from the Lancashire League, Birmingham League, Bradford League, Bolton League, Northern League, North Staffs League, Northumberland League and Middlesex League, as well as Cumbria and Northern Ireland.
PRAISE FOR STICKY DOGS AND STARDUST
The [Book of the Year award] goes to Sticky Dogs and Stardust, for its fund of astonishing stories, which would have remained untold without Scott Oliver’s labours, and for the élan and verve of his writing… [He] clearly has a profound understanding of and love for the local game [and] has done a magnificent job researching and recovering these stories, delving into mildewed scorebooks, interviewing teammates and opponents.
Anthony McGowan, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack
Been a big fan of Scott Oliver for a long time. Great attention to detail for cricket allied to fun gossip. The David Foster Wallace of cricket. His book, Sticky dogs and Stardust, is a delight. Couldn’t recommend it more
George Dobell
This book was a cracking idea
Martin Chandler, CricketWeb.net
This book is a gem. Reading and relishing this labour of love from freelance journalist and club cricketer Scott Oliver, one can easily understand why it was shortlisted for The Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award… The rollercoaster ride to a seasonal climax is so grippingly well written that it rivals the best ever writing about social cricket in Hugh de Selincourt’s The Cricket Match or AG McDonnell’s England Their England.
Philip Fisher, Cricket Society Journal
A rip-roaring journey through league cricket full of heart-warming stories, tales of derring-do and some brilliantly absurd anecdotes […] A passion to tell these stories leaps off every page like a Curtly Ambrose bouncer.
Timothy Abraham, The Cricketer
Scott should be proud – not only that he won the Wisden Book of the Year award, but for showing that obsessively researched, high-class writing about niche subjects still knocks everything else clean out of the Narenda Modi Stadium.
Rob Smyth
It’s a wonderful book… congenially written [but a work of impressive] scholarship
Dan Norcross
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