The cricket and literature quiz: Who was Arthur Conan Doyle’s only first-class wicket?

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Known mostly as the creator of Peter Pan, JM Barrie used to run a cricket club that also featured Arthur Conan Doyle, PG Wodehouse, AA Milne, EW Hornung, Jerome K Jerome, EV Lucas, and Rudyard Kipling. Several of them were also members of the Authors Cricket Club, which boasted of Kamila Shamsie, Andy Zaltzman, Jon Hotten, and Test cricketer Ed Smith.

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Over the years, some authors (or their relatives) have played at even first-class level, while Test cricketers have lent their names to books. For well over a century, cricket and literature have gone hand.

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Take our quiz to find out how well you know cricket’s myriad connections with literature.

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