A novel by Steve Bignell Foreword by Chris Dane We live in days of bluster. Deeds of men and women are seen as commodities, while promises of even greater deeds and vows of future magnificence are the real currency. Sometime in the mid-noughties Steve Bignell, cricketer, organiser, scorer, treasurer and WestX1 cricket club founder, announcedContinue reading “The Last Ball of Summer – Foreword”
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The Last Ball of Summer – Part 8
Jack Bigglesworth receives unexpected visitors
The Last Ball of Summer – Part 7
The war is over for the Wickham Dale boys, but at what cost?
The Last Ball of Summer – Part 6
Surviving the carnage was the easy part. While the guns continue to roar, a new age is dawning.
The Last Ball of Summer – Part 5
The manicured lawns of the home counties seem a distant memory to the pals in the thick of it in northern France
The Last Ball of Summer – Part 4
in which Europe is drawn inexorably into conflict, amid the dying embers of the cricket season
The Last Ball of Summer – Part 3
In which the school cricket season reaches a gripping climax, while the headmaster is on the receiving end of some punishment.
The Last Ball of Summer – Part 2
In which the Wickham boys play cricket against the local village.
The Last Ball of Summer – Part 1
An endless summer of cricket awaits the lads of Wickham Dale College for Boys
Winchmore Hill Tigers 