I had composed a comment about cricketing authors, but in the short time between reading your post and trying to post my reply my Internet connection died!
What I had been going to say was that, as you probably know, PG Wodehouse got the name "Jeeves" from a pre-WW1 Warwickshire cricketer called Percy Jeeves. Also Samuel Beckett played for Dublin University at a time when some of their matches had first-class status. I believe he is supposed to be the only winner of the Nobel Prize ever to play f-c cricket.
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What I had been going to say was that, as you probably know, PG Wodehouse got the name "Jeeves" from a pre-WW1 Warwickshire cricketer called Percy Jeeves. Also Samuel Beckett played for Dublin University at a time when some of their matches had first-class status. I believe he is supposed to be the only winner of the Nobel Prize ever to play f-c cricket.