Event 205
Hay Festival All-Stars vs Hay Town Cricket Match
– Hay Cricket Ground
Howzat? Having lost the inaugural Hay Festival Cricket Match 2024 on the last ball, the Hay Festival All-Star team returns to face its nemesis – the local Hay Town team – umpired once again by actor and author Stephen Fry.
The Authors Cricket Team has a 100-year history with the likes of PG Wodehouse, AA Milne and Arthur Conan Doyle stepping up to bat. More recently, the team has played against IPL players, the Vatican and the national teams of Japan and Iceland. Hay Festival Global is teaming up once again with The Authors to put out a side of writers and actors, with the odd professional cricketer filling in…
This year’s team features historian Tom Holland, actor Paterson Joseph, former England Captain Ebony Rainford-Brent, and authors Charlie Campbell and Adam Rutherford, with more names to be announced. The Hay Festival All-Stars will battle it out against the mighty Hay Town team captained by John Sly. Who will be victorious?
