Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a great cricket fan and actually played a fair number of first class matches. Indeed, while he only ever took one first class wicket, it was that of W G Grace so he does carry a certain cachet within the sport.

Cricket is the context for this decidedly unmemorable story. I am fairly certain that if it had been written by anyone else, it would not now be remembered or anthologised at all. Definitely one just for the Conan Doyle purists or completists. ( )