Test Time at Tillingford

It is summer in the sleepy Sussex village of Tillingfold. Once more Peter Gauvinier, the captain of the village Cricket Club, has to weld the varied talents of his players into a team.

But this year Gauvinier finds distractions off the square as well as on, for a new building development threatens to turn the village into a massive shopping complex, sweeping aside the cricket ground in the process. This year it is not just the fitness of his young fast bowler that keeps Guv awake at night…