Run Out In The Country (Signed.)

It all started on a rainy afternoon in December. As London solicitor Peter Jackson and his office junior, Winston Waites, stared out at the rush-hour bustle, he yearned for the idyllic summer days when he sweated behind the stumps. Winston, too, was fond of cricket, turning out for the Creek team whenever girls and hangovers allowed him time.
That cold winter night a challenge was made, the wicket-keeper's gloves were thrown down... and in the following June young Winston navigated his select team from the decaying streets of East London through the twisty lanes of Buckinghamshire, where nestled the village of Little Dow - and Lord Smythe's meadow.
Then the air was filled with cockney rhyming slang and pleasurable banter, as the two sides mingled before the game of a lifetime...