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A school story follows a wiry, observant boy and his peers through selection and competition for the school's cricket and rugby elevens, depicting locker-room politics, friendships, leadership struggles, practical jokes, morale issues, and battles over captaincy. The narrative traces escalating tensions, training and matches, personal ambitions and disappointments, an on-field accident that tests loyalties, and secret schemes and reconciliations that shape the team's fortunes and individual characters.
| “When he hit the boards he lay still” (See page 273) Frontispiece in colour | |
| FACING PAGE | |
|---|---|
| “He began to trot up the field like a pup with a slipper” | 28 |
| “The head advanced upon them in growing anger” | 98 |
| “‘The match is scratched, sir,’ said he” | 148 |
| “‘I think you’ve seen that before?’” | 208 |