Showing Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World by Harry Thompson

IT SEEMED A SIMPLE ENOUGH IDEA AT THE OUTSET: TO ASSEMBLE A TEAM OF ELEVEN MEN TO PLAY CRICKET ON EACH OF THE SEVEN CONTINENTS OF THE GLOBE. EXCEPT - HOLD ON A MINUTE - THAT S NOT A SIMPLE IDEA AT ALL. AND WHEN YOU THROW IN INCOMPETENT AIRLINE OFFICIALS, AMOROUS ARGENTINE COLONELS WIVES, CUNNING BAJAN DRUG DEALERS, GAY AUSTRALIAN WAITERS, OVERZEALOUS AMERICAN ANTI-TERRORIST POLICE, IDIOT WELSHMEN DRESSED AS SANTA CLAUS, ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU AND WHOLE ARMIES OF PITCH-INVADING ANTARCTIC PENGUINS, YOU QUICKLY ARRIVE AT A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN YOU BARGAINED FOR. HARRY THOMPSON S HILARIOUS BOOK TELLS THE STORY OF ONE OF THOSE GREAT IDIOTIC ENTERPRISES THAT ONLY AN ENGLISHMAN COULD HAVE DREAMED UP, AND ONLY A BUNCH OF ENGLISHMEN COULD POSSIBLY HAVE WISHED TO CARRY OUT.IT SEEMED A SIMPLE ENOUGH IDEA AT THE OUTSET: TO ASSEMBLE A TEAM OF ELEVEN MEN TO PLAY CRICKET ON EACH OF THE SEVEN CONTINENTS OF THE GLOBE. EXCEPT - HOLD ON A MINUTE - THAT S NOT A SIMPLE IDEA AT ALL. AND WHEN YOU THROW IN INCOMPETENT AIRLINE OFFICIALS, AMOROUS ARGENTINE COLONELS WIVES, CUNNING BAJAN DRUG DEALERS, GAY AUSTRALIAN WAITERS, OVERZEALOUS AMERICAN ANTI-TERRORIST POLICE, IDIOT WELSHMEN DRESSED AS SANTA CLAUS, ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU AND WHOLE ARMIES OF PITCH-INVADING ANTARCTIC PENGUINS, YOU QUICKLY ARRIVE AT A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN YOU BARGAINED FOR. HARRY THOMPSON S HILARIOUS BOOK TELLS THE STORY OF ONE OF THOSE GREAT IDIOTIC ENTERPRISES THAT ONLY AN ENGLISHMAN COULD HAVE DREAMED UP, AND ONLY A BUNCH OF ENGLISHMEN COULD POSSIBLY HAVE WISHED TO CARRY OUT.