How a cheeky adventure turned into a cautionary tale for the cricket writer who never was
WILLIAM HILL SHORTLIST Fibber in the Heat, by Miles Jupp (Ebury Press) Nowadays, Miles Jupp could not contemplate the audacious feat he pulled off in 2006, when he managed to blag his way on to the England cricket team's tour of India as a member of the travelling press corps. Having played the part of a press officer - ironically - in the BBC's political satire The Thick of It among a fairly lengthy list of TV appearances, as actor and stand-up comedian, there is no way on England's current excursion to the same country that he could go unrecognised. But six years ago it was different. Though he had taken the first steps in a television career, and though Jupp's role as Archie, the eccentric inventor in the CBeebies show Balamory , had led some people to shout at him in the in the street, the chances of his being identified for what he really was were still relatively slim. Fibber in the Heat, shortlisted for the 2012 William Hill Sports Book of the Y