Danbury cricketers bowled over as council bans all play

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Lois WorrowBBC Essex

Matt Knight/BBC A head and shoulders picture of Rory Carlton, club secretary of Danbury Cricket Club, wearing his white cricket jumper and holding a red cricket ball on a cricket pitch.Matt Knight/BBC

Rory Carlton said the ban on adult hard-ball cricket in Danbury was an “absolute tragedy”

Amateur cricketers have been bowled over after the sport was permanently banned at a village pitch.

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