The cricket fiction of Sassoon and De Sélincourt isn’t in a ‘bucolic dreamworld’ | Letter

There are serious political and societal messages to be found in some of the best-known fictional accounts of village cricket, argues Rod Edmond Your leader (The Guardian view on sporting fair play: it was never quite cricket, 30 July) recycles the persistent caricature of Siegfried Sassoon’s, Hugh de Sélincourt’s and