With perfect timing for the start of the 2022 county cricket season next week, the new April issue of the Cricketer magazine carries an excellent review of The Nature of Cricket by Guardian cricket correspondent Tanya Aldred, who has previously written about green initiatives being taken by cricket clubs at local level. Describing it as ‘a love letter to nature and how it interacts with the game’, she goes on, ‘The pleasure of Graham Coster’s gem of a book is that he writes about the little things that are actually the big things. It is an appreciation of a game whose indulgence is time - something which gives players, and spectators, the chance to appreciate their natural surroundings, from the red clover underfoot to the red kite gliding above.’