Suresh Menon at cricinfo on PG Wodehouse’s cricket connection:
PG Wodehouse was paid half a guinea for the first piece he ever wrote: “Some Aspects of Game Captaincy”, published in the Public School Magazine. He was 19 then. His next two pieces were also on cricket, for each of which he earned half a guinea. His first Jeeves story was 15 years away, but already the connections with cricket were strong.
Wodehouse, a medium-fast bowler for Dulwich College, who might have gone on to Oxford and won a Blue if his father’s business hadn’t collapsed and he himself been forced to seek employment with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, once wrote that he dreamed of a residence near Lord’s cricket ground. “I’ve always thought that’s where I should like to live, with a garden gate opening on the ground.”
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