An all-Wodehouse XI

PG Wodehouse, one of the great comic writers, was also a decent medium-pacer and a lifelong cricket addict. He wrote several cricket-related books and short stories, and named perhaps his most famous character, Jeeves, after a Warwickshire bowler Percy Jeeves. To mark an exhibition on the author, Henry Blofeld picks a team of Wodehouse characters. Head to Patrick Kidd's blog in the Times for details.

"We open the batting with Bertram Wilberforce Wooster, a bit of a flasher with the bat, I think. Alongside him, I select Roderick Spode, also known as Lord Sidcup, the only man in the books who never has one single redeeming feature, unless you include making women's underwear. I'm sure these two will run well together, although they are bound to run each other out at some point.