Review by Brian Lowen on show 18th March.
Eleven village cricketers take on the world.
It seemed a simple enough idea : assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the world. Except – hold on a minute – that’s not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, amorous Argentine colonel’s wives, cunning Barbados drug dealers, gay Australian waiters, over-zealous American anti-terrorist police, idiotic Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and armies of Antarctic pitch-invading penguins you quickly arrive at a lot more than you bargained for!
The book is written by Harry Thompson, a writer of many TV comedy series including “Have I got news for you” and he was the captain of the Captain Scott XI, which he ran in his spare time and was named after the Captain Scott of Antarctic fame because he came second in his exploits to reach the South Pole.
As well as being a good travelogue of their journey across the 7 continents of the world, the book describes the hilarious scrapes they get into on the way. The book should really be read by a cricket lover as each match on their tour is described in detail and I’m afraid I flipped over some of these pages.
British Airways comes off rather badly in this book due to their incompetent handling of the bookings for their flights around the world and according to Harry are the world’s second worst airline, only beaten by Yemen Airways!
Unfortunately Harry Thompson died of lung cancer at an early age shortly after completing this book.
Review by Brian Lowen
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