What Ho! It is the maddest, merriest day of all the glad New Year, when God is in heaven and everything is right with the world. Especially for the cricket addicts who love to curl up in bed with the yarns about silver cow creamers and that prize-winning Berkshire sow. Because, in this episode of Stories behind Books, Murray Hedgcock discloses how he went about penning Wodehouse at the Wicket. (As told to Mayukh Ghosh)
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The Ashes 1938 series was shared between Wally Hammond’s England and Don Bradman’s Australians. And the next Ashes Test would be played only in 1946-47, after the last bullet of the Second World War had been fired. However, one further Ashes encounter was played during this interlude, on the fictitious pitch of a hilarious novel written by Adrian Alington published in 1939. Arunabha Sengupta describes the book which should be in the collection of every lover of literature and cricket.
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