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    The Twelfth Man: Tales from the Village Green, #3
    The Twelfth Man: Tales from the Village Green, #3
    The Twelfth Man: Tales from the Village Green, #3
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    The Twelfth Man: Tales from the Village Green, #3

    By Michael White

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    Kevin Green is his school cricket team's perennial twelfth man. On the unlikely occasions that he gets to play he bats eleven, doesn't bowl, and fields at fine leg.

    Then one day his form teacher, Mr Woodhouse, asks him to play a real game - for Highfield men's team. Kevin finally has a chance to prove he can play cricket, but will he end up as hero or zero?

    The Twelfth Man is the third 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.

    The Twelfth Man 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
    ISBN9781502273260
    The Twelfth Man: Tales from the Village Green, #3
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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 Twelfth Man - Michael White

      Tales from the Village Green #3:

      The Twelfth Man

      Michael White

      Copyright Information

      Tales from the Village Green #3: The Twelfth Man

      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)

      The Twelfth Man

      Tales from the Village Green #3

      Michael White

      Kevin Green is his school cricket team’s perennial twelfth man. On the unlikely occasions that he gets to play, he bats eleven, doesn’t bowl, and fields at fine leg. Then one day, his form teacher, Mr. Woodhouse, asks him to play a real game - for Highfield’s men’s team. Kevin finally has a chance to prove he can play, but will he end up as hero or zero?

      The Twelfth Man 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 Twelfth Man

      ‘Lad, come here a moment, would you?’

      The bell had just gone to signal the end of form time when Kevin Green looked up to see his form teacher, Mr. Woodhouse, beckoning him over. The teacher that the kids all called Old Woodhouse was leaning against the front of his desk, his arms crossed over his ample belly. As always, his face looked red and blotchy as if he’d been drinking, although the kids all knew it was just the heat. Carrying around such a fuel tank had to be hard work, the other boys always

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