Earlier this week a cricket fan, Ben Mummery, posted footage from a village cricket match between Saltburn’s second XI and Norton. The clip piqued the interest of the online cricket community, who dug up several other clips showing similar behaviour. In a game against Shildon Railways, which Saltburn won by 22 runs, Bowes took eight catches. But until now, village cricket has relied much more on that amorphous idea of the spirit of the game. Village cricket is not that.