This is a great book. From start to finish it holds the reader's thrall. It is well written and engaging whether you like the game of cricket or not, it is a funny account of the experiences of a less than professional cricket XI as they attempt to play the game on evry continent in the world over a limited time. It is worth mentioning however that although it offers much to the general reader, the most satisfaction and enjoyment will be had by those with an appreciation and an understanding of the little nuances, subtleties and terms inherent in the game of cricket, after all "tickling it down to fine leg" and "firing it in just short of a length" is not in everyone's natural parlance!

It seemed a simple enough idea:assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe.

Except - hold on a minute - that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, amorous Argentine colonels' wives,cunning Bajan drug dealers, gay Australian waiters, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiotic Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins,you quickly arrive at a lot more than you bargained for.

Acknowledgements

1. Antarctica

2. Oxford

3. Delhi

4. Pietermaritzburg

5. Kuala Lumpur

6. The Whole World

7. Barbados

8. Buenos Aires

9. Down Under

10. Singapore

11. Cape Town

12. Heathrow

13. Oxford

Postscript

Afterword