25 AUGUST 2007, Page 15

Batting for Wodehouse

Sir: Robert Stewart remarks in the course of his review of Baseball Haiku (Books, 18 August) that there 'is no major cricket novel'. But what about Mike by P.G. Wodehouse? Perhaps it wasn't a major novel, but it's the best boys' school story I ever read and even now, in my late seventies, I find myself look- ing for it whenever I wander into a second- hand bookstore. And Wodehouse was a pretty good writer of the English language. Alan Magid Durban, South Africa