Mrs F Nevens, of Victoria Road, Dartmouth, writes:

On a beautiful sunny afternoon in Dartmouth, I have just witnessed a cricket match between the football club and the Dolphin, played at the football club ground.

The Twenty/20 league appears to be a very competitive one this year, with much banter betwen the players.

What should have been an enjoyable experience following the dismal weather and many cancelled matches, turned out to be the most unpleasant cricket match that I have ever watched – and there have been a fair few!

With both teams vying for a place at the top of the league, expectations were running high.

The Dolphin scored 84 all out, which was slightly under par. The football club came into bat, and following a couple of run-out decisions early on, the whole atmosphere of the afternoon changed.

At one point the umpires came off the field to have a word with the football club captain regarding the un-sportsman like behaviour of certain players. These unbiased umpires give up their spare time and are on the field doing a good job.

To the chap with the pint in his hand, pointing an angry finger at the league chairman/ scorer, I say to you – pop your pint on the bar, don a white coat and go out and do a better job of umpiring if you think you can.

To the player from the football club who was on the receiving end of one of those contentious run-out decisions, and who proceeded to prowl the boundary in his socks, with a pint in one hand and a bat in the other and a larger than life opinion on every ball bowled, I say to you – that's not quite cricket!

To the player who kicked a ball he had missed with the huge bat in his hands, and proceeded to run, I say to you – that's not quite cricket!

The day that I see Andrew Strauss wandering around the boundary with a pint in his hand, slagging off the umpires, is the day I stop watching cricket.

Remember chaps, it's just village cricket.

The captain of the Dolphin said after the match that if any of his players behaved in such a manner, they would no longer be on his team. He was too much of a gentleman on the day to verbalise his feelings.

I, on the other hand, am not.