http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/09/kareem_abdul_jabbar_s_mycroft_holmes_the_former_lakers_star_tries_his_hand.html

More than a decade before creating Peter Pan and Captain Hook, J.M. Barrie was a cricket captain in need of some magic on the pitch. In 1890, he assembled an amateur cricket team known as the Allahakbarries, comprised of a rotating roster of writers, among them A.A. Milne and P.G. Wodehouse. In a privately circulated team booklet, Barrie assessed his star bowler, Arthur Conan Doyle, who was known as “the colossus” to his teammates and the creator of Sherlock Holmes to the rest of the world. “Doyle. A grand bowler,” Barrie wrote. “Knows a batsman’s weakness by the colour of mud on his shoes.”