ASIN: B00JSRFIF8
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 98
Based on the observations of an undistinguished village cricketer, Cautionary Tales from the Pavilion is a short collection of verse, a cameo of an innings containing silky cover drives and bucolic bludgeons to cow corner.Meet a team of village players, including poor Biffer Bevan, who paid the price for unwittingly failing to abide by child protection directives; then there’s old Daniel Trevor, who refused to retire from the game, and so was ‘pushed’; Steven Rees, who felt overwhelmed when put on the tea rota; and young Reginald Fleet, who was unable to curb his instinct to sledge and received poetic justice and a painful end.The verses have a certain wit and charm, reminiscent of Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children. Suitable for village cricketers both young and old. (Though not too young, due to the disturbing nature of a couple of the verses; and not so old that you have ...
