Timothy Abraham reports on football in Merseyside and Manchester. He has written for every national newspaper including The Times, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph and the BBC Sport website. He has also written on cricket for The Cricketer and the Press Association. He plays league cricket for Carmel & District CC in North Wales, and has organised nine tours to emerging cricket nations in Central and Eastern Europe. He has co-edited Wisden's Cricket Round the World section since 2012. James Coyne is the assistant editor of The Cricketer magazine. He spent five years as the assistant editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack before this project. He has also written for The Nightwatchman and ESPN Cricinfo, and spent three years at the Press Association, where he co-edited the ECB website. He co-wrote The Cricketer Anthology of the Ashes (Allen & Unwin). He plays league cricket for Flitwick CC in Bedfordshire, and has gone on several tours to Europe with Carmel & District CC. He has co-edited Wisden's Cricket Round the World section since 2012.
A highly entertaining read, deftly melding social history with sporting memoir and travelogue * Mail on Sunday * Full of diverting titbits . . . Coyne and Abraham's dedication, meticulous research and humility before their subject . . . a serious social history, sprinkled with cliche-free travel writing * Spectator * Electrifying . . . I urge this book on anyone who loves cricket, or Latin America, or travel, or history of all kinds, or storytelling * The Cricketer * Captivating . . . absorbing . . . not only a cricket book but a treatise on history of Latin America through cricket with plenty of academic inputs extensively scholarly researched publication deserved a place on the household bookshelf * Wisden Cricket Monthly * A masterpiece . . . it's going to be read in a hundred years' time * Peter Oborne *