Lawrence Booth

Lawrence Booth is the man behind the Guardian Unlimited's enormously popular column The Spin, which pulls in a weekly readership of around 10,000 subscribers. A lifelong cricket fan, he is the author of Cricket: Celebrating the Modern Game Around the World (2005) and Arm-ball to Zooter: A Sideways Look at the Language of Cricket (2006). He is also a contributing editor to Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.