![]() Sadly, fame took its toll and the pair featured fleetingly in the early days of the club. Consequently, in the finest of English traditions, they formed their own club, a club where ability (or rather the lack of it) was less an obstacle, more a positive boon – at least at first.Įarly recruits to the club rapidly earning a reputation as ‘the worst in Oxfordshire’ included Hugh Grant, described as ‘A foppish and elegant bat who never scored any runs’, and Ian Hislop who once hilariously hopped over a fence to retrieve a ball, only to end up waist-deep in liquid manure. Thompson and Berkmann were boyhood chums who lived for cricket, but constant rebuffs on the grounds of general hopelessness and ‘wetness’ precluded them from ever representing House, School or University. The Scott XI was born in the winter of 1978, the brainchild of a group of Oxford undergraduates that included Thompson and Marcus Berkmann who would eventually pen ‘Rain Men’, the first novel to cover some of the extraordinary exploits of the ?Scotties?, published a decade ago. This book, the story of one of English cricket’s famously eccentric clubs, The Captain Scott XI (named after perhaps the greatest runner-up of them all), is Thompson’s legacy to the game he loved. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harry Thompson, the brilliantly twisted mind behind ‘Have I Got News For You’ and so many other irreverent BBC comedies, died in November 2005 following an unsuccessful battle against lung cancer. ![]() Penguins Stopped Play Eddie Sanders | 12:00am BST 24 June 2006 ![]()
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