Ten years after his classic Rain Men, Marcus Berkmann returns to the strange and wondrous world of village cricket, where players sledge their teammates, umpires struggle to count up to six, the bails aren't on straight and the team that field after a heavy tea invariably loses. This time he's on the trail of the Ageing Cricketer, having suddenly realised that he is one himself and plays in a team with ten others every weekend. In their minds they run around the field as fast as ever; it's only their legs that let them down. Chronicling the 2004 season, with its many humiliating defeats and bizarre injuries, this coruscatingly funny new book laughs in the face of middle age, and starts seriously thinking about buying a motorbike.