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    The Partnership: Tales from the Village Green, #6
    The Partnership: Tales from the Village Green, #6
    The Partnership: Tales from the Village Green, #6
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    The Partnership: Tales from the Village Green, #6

    By Michael White

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    As the season draws to a close and Launceston Firsts edge closer to a remarkable promotion, the long-term feud between Rob and Mick is beginning to cause problems in the team. Rob is the club’s best wicketkeeper, and Mick the best bowler, but can they overcome their mutual dislike long enough to form a partnership that will take their club to victory?

    The Partnership is a story about 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 enjoy tales of simple heroism, you may find it worth a read.6

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAMMFA Publishing
    Release dateAug 17, 2014
    ISBN9781502224095
    The Partnership: Tales from the Village Green, #6
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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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      The Partnership - Michael White

      Tales from the Village Green #6

      The Partnership

      Michael White

      Copyright Information

      Tales from the Village Green #6: The Partnership

      Copyright © Michael White 2014

      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 from Flickr, used by Creative Commons license 2014

      Cover design by Michael White 2014

      Also by Michael White

      (collected of 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)

      The Partnership

      Tales from the Village Green #6

      Michael White

      As the season draws to a close and Launceston Firsts edge closer to a remarkable promotion, the long term feud between Rob and Mick is beginning to cause problems in the team. Rob is the club’s best wicketkeeper, and Mick the best bowler, but can they overcome their mutual dislike long enough to form a partnership that will take their club to victory?

      The Partnership is a story about 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 enjoy tales of simple heroism, you may find it worth a read.

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      The Partnership

      The ball landed a fraction outside off stump, pitching perfectly on a slightly angled seam. It gripped on the rough dirt of the wicket and bent away, the seam scrambling as it flashed past the outside edge of the batsman’s desperate lunge. Everyone within thirty yards of the wicket heard the woody sound of it glancing off the edge, and hands rose into the air even as the wicketkeeper began to dive. The ball sailed through the air at a perfectly catchable height, just to the right of the diving keeper. Then, as the ball should have found itself nestling inside the webbing of Launceston Cricket Club First XI’s team wicket-keeping gloves, it slipped through the gap in the keeper’s hands and bounced away towards the boundary.

      ‘Run!’ the batsman at the non-striker’s end screamed, and dashed down the pitch as the striker gaped in amazement at the easy catch that had gone begging. He ran through for the single and raised his arms in the air. The touring side from Mangotsfield in Bristol had just beaten a Launceston XI by one wicket.

      As the batsmen ran off towards the pavilion where their teammates were already opening cans of beer in celebration, Mick Cleve took his cap from the umpire and threw it down on the ground in disgust. Then, his eyes glowering with anger, he marched towards down the pitch towards Robert Wilkinson, the team wicketkeeper, who was busy explaining to the slip fielders how the easy catch had managed to sneak through his fingers.

      ‘Honestly,’ he said with a regretful smile, ‘It was right there. I almost had it. Rob’s just such a great bowler that a last bit of swing took it away from me.’

      ‘That’s it,’ Mick said, clenching a fist. ‘It’s

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