135-year-old cricket club faces ban

Petty bureaucracy may cause the closure of a 135-year-old cricket club.

East Northamptonshire council has blocked 135-year-old Rushden Town Cricket Club to put up practice nets for 12 players, as they fear that the noise produced from playing might disturb the locals surrounding the club.

However, the 50 odd residents around the club have no objection to the club continuing in the same premises.

In essence, this concern for the welfare of the residents is the handiwork of a bureaucrat with his nose buried in the rulebook.

I wonder how we can bring him to his senses. Obviously, he has no sense of history and is tone deaf to the pleasure of hearing a bat thwack the cricket ball.

The only way to make him see light so to speak, would be to bobbit him.