Fanatical on the subject of cricket since he was a boy, MILES JUPP would do anything to see his heroes play. But perhaps choosing to bluff his method into the press corps during England’s Check series in India wasn’t his best idea.

By claiming to be the cricket correspondent for BBC Scotland and getting a job using the (Welsh) European Mail, Mls lands the press pass that will certainly be the solution to his dreams. Quickly, he finds himself in cricket heaven – drinking with David Gower and Beefy, sharing bar room banter with Nasser Hussain and swapping diarrhoea stories using the Test Match Special team. Amazing!

But struggling in heat under the burden of his own fibs, reality soon catches up with Mls as – just like a cricket-obsessed Shoe from Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop – he bumbles from one disaster to another. A joyous, wonderful, yet cautionary tale, Fibber in the Heat is for anyone who’s ever dreamt about carrying out nothing but watching cricket the whole day.