The Sign of Four Runs - Arthur Conan Doyle

Thanks to Frank Keating in the Guardian for reminding us all today that the Scottish sleuth author played first class cricket. Conan Doyle played 10 games for MCC between 1900 and 1907, averaging a respectable 19 with the bat. He was said to "hit hard" and bowl "slows with a puzzling flight". Playing against London County at, of all places, Crystal Palace he had the great WG caught behind and despite a rather Pringle-esque bowling average he once took 7 for 61 against Cambridgeshire.