FOR: "I am an avid cricket fan, and the description of the match was the funniest I have ever read. Perhaps our beleaguered England cricketers should read it and then they might loosen up a bit. It was a stroke of comic genius to introduce the Rudyard Kipling character under the guise of Mudyard Tipling. This would be well worth filming as a sequel to an excellent film.."

-Brian Potter, Nantwich, Cheshire.

AGAINST: "Two chapters devoted to a farcical cricket match! What a bore. I skipped the second chapter about the cricket, and lost the thread of the story. How disappointing, particularly as it had started out so promisingly with the Great Curry Powder plot."

- Mrs Mary Russell, Wrexham Clywd.