Duncan Hamilton guests at SPIN Cricket Club, July 14

Round 3 of the SPIN Cricket Club at Gordon Ramsay’s rather nice pub near Lord’s, The Warrington sees us host Britain’s No 1 sports writer for a special evening to launch his new book. The event is free and there will, as ever, be some free Ramsay food.

To put your name down, please email us at spincc@spincricket.com.

If you sign up to become a member of the SPIN CC at the Warrington, you get 10 per cent of Ramsay dining for 12 months AND 10 issues of the best cricket magazine going. (www.tinyurl.com/SPINCCRamsay)

No 1 sports writer? Well, Duncan Hamilton has won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award twice in the last three years, so you do the math’s’. Firstly, in 2007, with Provided You Don’t Kiss Me: 20 years With Brian Clough, Duncan’s account of life as the journalist who knew Clough best during his glory years. The book sold over 100,000 copies.

Then, last year, Duncan won the award again with his acclaimed biography of Harold Larwood, which brought a whole era back to life, brilliantly.

Duncan’s new book, A Last English Summer, is a journey through English cricket taking a series of games in the summer of 2009 as a starting-point to talk about the history and character of the game and of Englishness itself.

The book is inspired by Duncan’s lifelong love of cricket and by JB Priestley’s English Journey.

Duncan will be talking about this new book and his career in general, with SPIN editor Duncan Steer. As usual, we will have a prize cricket quiz to win dinner for two at the rather splendid Ramsay restaurant upstairs at the Warrington.

Entry is FREE, kick-off is at 7 for 7.30, there will be a free Ramsay buffet and a chance to meet and mingle with cricket movers and shakers.

The Warrington is at 93 Warrington Crescent, London W9, nearest tube Warwick Avenue or Maida Vale.

And don’t forget, if you sign up to become a member of the SPIN CC at the Warrington, you get 10 per cent of Ramsay dining for 12 months AND 10 issues of the best cricket magazine going. (www.tinyurl.com/SPINCCRamsay)