Scott Oliver turned to freelance features writing in 2012 after completing an arduous PhD on Peronist Argentina - mainly about sport, although he has written on culture and politics for the Guardian, the New European, New Statesman, VICE and others. A regular contributor of football long forms to The Blizzard, Mundial and The Ringer, cricket is nevertheless his first love. He has written hundreds of pieces ona multitude of topics for ESPN cricinfo, Cricbuzz, the Cricketer and Wisden Cricket Monthly, for whom he has been club cricket correspondent since its 2017 re-launch, compiling the much-loved "Club Cricket Hall of Fame" series. This is his third book, the third instalment of the Sticky Dogs and Stardust series.