Possible Clues:

• The way scholar is caught by feeble fielder
• Graham Greene novella, with "The"
• Younger brother who's dispatched cricketer
• Mystery spy is close to the rope?
• In cricket, a fielding position near the boundary behind the slips
• Cricket fielding position (for a spy?)
• 1949 British film set in Vienna, starring Orson Welles
• One in field's subject of film
• The __, fielding position - or a novel by Graham Greene
• Fielding position (cricket)