WESTOW cricketers will expect to harvest many a win this season.

As our stunning photograph shows, their pitch is surrounded on all sides by a dazzling carpet of oil seed rape.

Spiritedly, the team warn opposing players of the hay fever risk. Even so, some of them must be crying at the crease, wheezing at the wicket and sneezing at silly mid-on.

And that's to say nothing of the potential problem of player misplacement.

Any captain sending a fielder out to deep third man risks losing him completely.

Updated: 11:29 Wednesday, May 05, 2004