Caught in the Middle by Mike Procter & Lungani Zama

Caught in the Middle (Cricket Autobiography in Illustrated Dust Jacket)

The Candid Life Story of a South African Cricketing Great, from Hilton College to Monkeygate

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Caught in the Middle: Monkeygate, Politics and Other Hairy Issues; the Autobiography of Mike Procter
• Authors: Mike Procter & Lungani Zama
• Publisher: Pitch Publishing, Worthing, Sussex
• Publication Date: 2017
• ISBN-13: 9781785312168
• Edition Details: First published edition, 2017.
• Binding: Publisher's green cloth boards with a glossy illustrated dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Octavo hardcover, 224 pages.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
• Exterior / Boards: The green cloth boards are clean, with no visible marks, bumping or damage. The spine of the dust jacket is glossy green with white lettering.
• Interior: The text block is clean, with cream pages and no foxing, markings or staining. The binding is tight and the title page is clean.
• The Dust Jacket: Present. The glossy laminated jacket is clean and bright, with a very small nick or white speck on the spine near the title and a small speck at the right edge of the back panel. It is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Caught in the Middle: Monkeygate, Politics and Other Hairy Issues is the autobiography of Mike Procter, the South African all-rounder, written with the cricket journalist Lungani Zama and published by Pitch Publishing in 2017. It follows his career from school cricket at Hilton College through Test cricket, county cricket and World Series Cricket, and on to his later work as coach, selector and match referee.

Procter's international career was cut short by South Africa's isolation from world cricket, and the book reflects on that loss. It also covers South Africa's readmission to international cricket in 1991, the Monkeygate affair involving Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds, and the bomb blast in Karachi.

The book was shortlisted at the 2018 British Sports Book Awards. It is a good addition to a collection of South African sporting history and cricket literature.

Author Profile: Mike Procter

Michael John Procter (1946 to 2024) was a South African cricketer whose international career was limited to seven Tests, all against Australia, because of South Africa's banishment from world cricket. He played 401 first-class matches and scored 21,936 runs. He was named South African Cricket Annual Cricketer of the Year in 1967 and a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1970.

He co-wrote this autobiography with Lungani Zama, a journalist and international cricket correspondent for Independent Newspapers.

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