A hilarious comedy set against a cricket pavilion about the trials and tribulations of the players and their wives and girlfriends. Roger has his work cut out as he desperately tries to assemble a cricket team to play against the British Railways Maintenance Division Reading East. However, these problems are the least of his worries compared to the complications occurring amongst their wives and girlfriends who try to help and hinder with devastating effects. As a final catastrophe, rain starts to fall.