Only hours after receiving the Prat of the year award, Eastry Cricket Club Chairman Kevin Deveson proves just why he received the accolade.

Having spent hours rolling, scarifying and mowing the wicket today, the square was looking lovely with a picturesque, uniform stripe going up and down the grass. The chairman, left to his own devices, was happily tinkering with the mower and had turned his back on it for a few moments. However, having left the motor running, the mower went for a mow all by itself, inserting an ugly scar of a stripe horizontally across the square. Now picture the Chairman running like a madman to recapture the escaped mower!

Silly Mr Chairman!

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Above: The ugly stripe across the square and, inset, ECC Chairman Kevin Deveson, left, receives the Prat of the year award, pictured with Vice Chairman Dave Waring.