This comedy set during a village cricket match was an entertaining enough way to spend an evening.

There were some funny moments as players, wives and girlfriends clashed on the pavilion.

But I didn't think this play -- neither script nor production -- was up to the usual high standard of the Playhouse.

Richard Harris's dialogue trundled along nicely but the story was slight and one or two stretches had no laughs.

And surprisingly for the Playhouse, several of the nine performances came across as unrealistic.

In this tale populated by stereotype comic characters too many were stilted, exaggerated or just a little wrong.

Kim Sykes and Haydn Cavanagh, however, were totally credible -- and hilarious -- as two of the most colourful characters.

Barbara Boothroyd scored with great comic timing and Jill-Marie Craven was a marvellously mad girlfriend.

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David Knights