Full Circle comes to the Bat & Ball

An Evening at the Cradle: History, Cricket and Good Company

Some evenings feel like they were made for a particular place. Thursday 10 September might just be one of them.

Peter Oborne and Richard Heller, co-authors of Full Circle: A History of Cricket, widely regarded as one of the most ambitious cricket books in years, have accepted an invitation to join us for dinner in the Bat & Ball. They will speak about the book and about the game itself.

Oborne needs little introduction to most readers of these pages. A former chief political commentator at the Daily Telegraph, Press Awards Columnist of the Year twice over, and author of the prize-winning Basil D'Oliveira: Cricket and Conspiracy. He has been writing seriously about cricket for decades. Richard Heller was a Mail on Sunday columnist and long-time cricket writer.

Together they ran the Oborne & Heller on Cricket podcast. Full Circle is the culmination of that partnership: a genuinely global history of the game, and one that comes with the Chairman's full endorsement.

There are few settings better suited to an evening like this. Broadhalfpenny Down has been asking questions about where cricket came from for a very long time. It seems only right that two men who have spent years trying to answer them should come and sit with us.

The dinner will be held in the Bat & Ball dining area with up to 40 guests allocated on a first come first served basis. The cost of the dinner with talk is approximately £50 per person, depending on menu choice, with a £10 deposit to secure your place. Brigands are welcome to bring guests.

To book your place, contact the Hon Sec at brigandscchonsec@gmail.com by 18.00 on Monday 15 June 2026