It occurred in a second XI cricket match last weekend between Saltburn and Norton in the North Yorkshire and South Durham League. There the matter might have ended, but these days even second XI matches are recorded and there was footage of the alleged finger-clicking. Sleepy Saltburn, worried about critics labelling it the “Argentina of village cricket”, are taking no chances. We have an especially rose-tinted view of village cricket, insisting that amateurs “Play up! We imagine village cricket as the bucolic dreamworld described in Siegfried Sassoon’s recollections of prewar games (the idyll before the nightmare of the trenches), Hugh de Sélincourt’s 1924 classic The Cricket Match and AG Macdonell’s 1933 England, Their England.