Cricket is a summer game, intended to be played on green fields
under blue skies and warm sun. But, for the first time, a book
explores the mesmerising beauty of cricket grounds in winter,
carpeted with snow, through remarkable colour photographs depicting
grounds from Lord's to the smallest village pitch in Lancashire,
and internationally from New Zealand to the Indian Himalayas. For
this aspect alone, Snow Stopped Play will be seized upon as the
perfect gift for the cricket fan even by those utterly uninterested
in the sport. But Snow Stopped Play is also a fascinatingly
eccentric and charming disquisition, in the best tradition of
cricket classics like Carr's Dictionary of Extra-Ordinary
Cricketers, on the game of cricket itself, through its hitherto
unexamined relationship with snow. Did John Arlott really find a
snowflake on his sleeve at Lord's in June? Why did a Derbyshire
batsman have to take his false teeth out after a snowfall at Buxton
in 1975? And has the Sussex fast bowler and poet John Snow ever
written a poem about snow?
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