About Oliver Brett

After the solemn realisation at the age of 12 that I might not be good enough to play cricket for England I decided that the next best thing, writing about cricket, would have to suffice as a career.

I fell in love with the game as an eight-year-old at Headingley in 1981 and was at The Oval in 2005 when we won the Ashes for the first time in 18 years.

In my spare weekends, my unpredictable leg-spin is sometimes required for my village team, Turville Park.

I am also steadily attempting to introduce three young boys to the game - but sometimes feel I am fighting a losing battle against the rival appeals of Tiger Woods, Lewis Hamilton and Cristiano Ronaldo.