Douglas, captain of Minor County Westhants, has to act. The club's President, his team-mates' apathy, and the Wildcats, the American football team the President plans to import, are all ranged against him. Westhants just have to win England's premier cricketing competition. Derring-do on the pitch, skulduggery off it, crooked property developers, a pond, and Tigger (Douglas' philosophising cat) all conspire to throw Westhants into a desperate battle for survival.