Shomit Dutta so loved playing cricket with the great writer that he’s written a play about Pinter, Samuel Beckett and our national game
Harold Pinter described cricket as ‘greater than sex’. In a Test Match Special interview with Brian Johnston in 1990 he said, ‘Cricket was part of my life from the day I was born.’ For the second half of his life – from the age of 39 until his death in 2008, aged 78 – Pinter played for and then presided over Gaieties CC, a wandering club of mavericks and dissenters, many with links to theatre. ...
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