![]() Thompson was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer last spring and died in November, aged 45. But there is one crucial, brutal difference in the course of their lives. ![]() ![]() They even wrote books together, churning out forgotten stocking-fillers that rejoiced in the titles of Fatties, Beardies and Baldies. The Captain Scott XI is shaping up as club cricket's answer to the Bloomsbury group.īest friends from the age of 10, both educated at Highgate and Oxford, both turning their comic gifts into careers and sharing the captaincy of their club, Thompson and Berkmann may strike the reader as virtual twins. Another founder was Harry Thompson, who became a television comedy producer, novelist and biographer, and eventually wrote Penguins Stopped Play, about the club's attempt to play on every continent of the world. In fact, it defined the genre - the comic memoir of sporting incompetence - and sold so well that Berkmann wrote a sequel, Zimmer Men (2005). His book about the club, Rain Men (1995), is widely regarded as a classic of the genre. ![]() One of the founders was Marcus Berkmann, who became a comic writer. ![]()
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