The gentlemen of Surrey and Kent play cricket at Knole Park, Kent, the home of John Sackville, 1775 © Culture Club/Getty Images
Country houses and cricket pitches. How frightfully English. As an idea for a book, it might be in danger of sailing close to caricature. Thankfully, Pete Langman, aka the Country House Cricketer, is a down-to-earth Sunday-sportsman type, who mixes in a little renaissance poetry along with the wisdom of Steven Seagal to describe his summer of pl… (View original article)