Set two seasons after the coronavirus devastated the summer game, 'Close of Play' is a humorous rustic rural romp looking at what happens when property developers want to turn a village cricket ground into a new housing estate.The planning laws offer no protection. Protests do not help. And when the players can earn £40,000 each by selling off the land, everything seems lost. Until they decide to settle the issue by holding a £1 million village cricket match. But some of the tactics are just not cricket.Featuring an ex-MP, a Eurovision Song Contest winner, a fat headmaster, an angry environment campaigner, a bewildered farmer, a family divided, a dashing doctor and a confusing councillor, will Lord of the Manor Nick Stafford get his way and make even more money or will be be stumped by the remainers?

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• Literature & FictionHumor & SatireGeneral Humor
• Literature & FictionGenre FictionSports

• Publication Date: August 12, 2020
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• Print Length: 208 Pages
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