'It was a harsh intrusion into the peaceful setting of a village cricket match. In the countryside gunshots are not unusual. Farmers are not averse to potting rabbits or scaring birds off their crops. In those circumstances more than one shot would be expected. It might have been a car backfiring. It was the fact that some people thought they had a heard a scream that tended to rule out these explanations.' Fatally Cricket portrays the world of village cricket at its most murderous.

As any follower of the Outcasts CC will acknowledge, a fixture with a respectable body like the Lords and Commons Cricket Club was never likely to lead to a happy outcome - however charitable the intentions. And, of course, the presence of an Arabian prince and a delegation of American politicians could only ever complicate matters. Politically Cricket portrays the world of village cricket at its most entangled.

One would think that only a club with at least twenty-two players would arrange to play simultaneous fixtures. But with the Outcasts CC - England's most notorious wandering club - it is different, of course. Still, the challenge provided by a clash of fixtures should at least allow the club to put behind it the unfortunate memories of their first ever fixture in France. Or perhaps not.

The Outcasts CC always set off to their matches with the best intentions (so they say) - so why do their matches always bring the game into such disrepute? Now the mayhem goes global. From small town Australia to a country house somewhere in Hertfordshire, cricket's most notorious club becomes ever more entangled with the most deplorable behaviour. In "Accidentally Cricket", village cricket meets the world of celebrity - supposedly. The result is neither pretty nor excusable.