Dan Starkey reads this completely new novel based on a story by Douglas Adams.

THE PHYSICIAN promised Romana the finish from the universe, so she’s less than impressed when what she gets is a cricket match. But the award ceremony is certainly interrupted by eleven numbers in white uniforms and peaked skull helmets, wielding bat-shaped weaponry that fire lethal bolts of light in to the screaming audience. The Krikkitmen are back again.

Millions of years back, the people of Krikkit learned they were not by yourself in the about Doctor Who all and the Krikkitmen: 4th Doctor Novel world, and promptly launched a xenophobic crusade to get rid of all the life-forms. After an extended and bloody turmoil, the Time Lords imprisoned Krikkit in a envelope of Slow Time, a prison that could only be opened using the Wicket Gate key, a tool that resembles – to human being eye, at least – an oversized group of cricket stumps…

From Globe to Gallifrey, from Bethselamin to Devalin, from Krikkit to Mareeve II to the far advantage of infinity, the Doctor and Romana are tugged right into a pan-galactic conga with fate because they rush to avoid the Krikkitmen gaining all five pieces of the key. If indeed they fail, the entire cosmos faces a fiery retribution that may leave nothing but ashes…