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    Searching for W.G.: Tales from the Village Green, #4
    Searching for W.G.: Tales from the Village Green, #4
    Searching for W.G.: Tales from the Village Green, #4
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    Searching for W.G.: Tales from the Village Green, #4

    By Michael White

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    Jimmy Wentworth is known as a stonewaller and has no chance of making the team for the Twenty20 knockout cup final. That is until he receives a mysterious message, and begins to grow a rather famous beard ...


    Searching for W.G. is the fourth in Michael White's Tales from the Village Green series. A keen but extremely poor cricketer, Michael has a love for the game which he hopes is reflected in his stories about it.

    Searching for W.G. is a story of village cricket. As a result it's packed full of cricket terminology. If you don't know much about cricket then this story might not be for you. However, if you love village life and tales of simple heroism, then you may find it worth a read.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChris Ward
    Release dateAug 17, 2014
    ISBN9781502262936
    Searching for W.G.: Tales from the Village Green, #4
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    Michael White

    Michael White is a pen name of Chris Ward, the acclaimed author of The Tube Riders science fiction trilogy. One of Chris's great loves as a schoolboy was village cricket, and he is currently the manager and specialist number nine batsman for the cricket club in Nagano, Japan, where he currently lives, a club which, at the time of writing, had approximately seven players.

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      Searching for W.G. - Michael White

      Tales from the Village Green #4:

      Searching for W.G.

      Michael White

      Copyright Information

      Tales from the Village Green #4: Searching for W.G."

      Copyright © Michael White 2013

      This story is a work of fiction and is a product of the author’s imagination.

      All resemblances to actual locations or to persons living or dead are entirely coincidental.

      All content Copyright © Michael White 2013

      Cover image purchased from pond5.com 2013

      Cover design Copyright © Michael White 2013

      Also by Michael White

      (collected stories #1 – #5)

      Tales From the Village Green Collect Tales Volume 1

      (short stories)

      Never Give Up (Tales #1)

      The Substitute (Tales #2)

      The Twelfth Man (Tales #3)

      Searching for W.G. (Tales #4)

      Grandad’s Old Bat (Tales #5)

      The Partnership (Tales #6)

      Searching for W.G.

      Tales from the Village Green #4

      Michael White

      Jimmy Wentworth is known as a stonewaller and has no chance of making the team for the Twenty20 Knockout Cup final. That is until he receives a mysterious message, and begins to grow a rather famous beard…

      Searching for W.G. is a story about village cricket, albeit one with an unusual twist! As a result it’s packed full of cricket terminology. If you don’t know much about cricket then this story might not be for you. However, if you enjoy tales of simple heroism, you may find it worth a read.

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      Searching for W.G.

      Sitting at the far end of Fishponds Road, on the route the No.49 bus takes out to Emerson’s Green, Downend is a sleepy little suburban area of Bristol, notable – or not – for its proximity to the ring-road and a single line of mostly featureless shops.

      Without doubt the most inspiring place in this uninspiring part of town is the cricket field, a wide, flat stretch of green in the middle of a grey carpet of houses and streets. On one side a line of tall poplar trees provides shade for picnickers, while on the other a crisp white pavilion suggests a future of hard-fought battles between armies of flannel-clad warriors.

      While pretty, it is just another village cricket ground among hundreds nestled into the bosoms of their communities all across the country. Downend, however, has one small claim to fame.

      It is the birthplace of the father of cricket – William Gilbert Grace.

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      At nineteen, Jimmy Harmsworth had long since given up any dreams of playing cricket for England. Endless hours of hitting a ball slipped inside an old pair of his mother’s tights and then hung from the washing line had produced a solid defense which would have worked great in the

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