Saturday, 8 May 2010

Cricket, Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh and Sherlock Holmes


Lovely story here about Peter Pan author JM Barrie putting together the first celebrity cricket team, when he drafted in SirArthur Conan Doyle, PG Wodehouse, AA Milne and Jerome K Jerome for his curiously named team the Allahakbarries between 1887 and 1913.




It's about a new book called Peter Pan's First XI: The Extraordinary Story of JM Barrie's Cricket Team by Kevin Telfer out later this month, which looks to be a fascinating read.

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