From the Pavilion End

The Umpire strikes back.

Dickie Bird is the most famous cricket umpire in the world and one of the game’s greatest characters.

From the Pavilion End is his third collection of lively memoirs and humorous cricket anecdotes. A worrier by nature, he describes the various misfortunes that befall him – whether it is dealing with hostile fast bowlers and petulant batsmen or even peacocks in the back garden and the horrors of foreign food!

Dickie Bird is an astute observer of the Test and county scene, and his amusing comments about the game and its great players will delight cricket lovers everywhere.