Enjoyable collection of stories that suffers from sameness. The Game of the Season will be sought out by all fans of Selincourt's perennial novel The Cricket Match. But, while the novel puts the cricket life of the players into the context of their daily lives, the short stories are more narrowly focussed on the game itself. Selincourt's descriptions of cricket are unsurpassed, but reading these stories one after the other exposes their lack of variation. This is less noticeable when reading them in anthologies, where they frequently appear. The collection includes two stories where the village cricketers of Tillingfold take on 'golden age' Australian Test teams of the 1920s and 1930s. Recommended (for cricket fans). ( )