Friends of playwright Harold Pinter are organising a cricket match in his memory later this year.
They will use the occasion to auction off a painting of him in a cricketing pose to raise money to help children in Hackney.

The Independent reports that the Pinter family has already received an anonymous bid of £4,000 for the portrait, but is holding out for a higher price.
Pinter, who died in December, aged 78, from cancer, was of the view that battle between bat and ball was God’s greatest creation. The charity game in September will be between the Gaieties and the Lord’s Taverners.
It was the Gaieties which presented Pinter with the portrait, by Joe Hill.