Wednesday 2nd April

The results of the March 200 Club draw are as follows:

£10 Mrs Sue Yeates No. 86
£5 Mr Robert Blackburn No. 22
£4 Mrs Lois Harvey No. 109
£3 Mr Kevin Dee No. 159
£2 Mrs Jenny Smith No. 6
£2 Mr John Reynolds No. 25

Tickets can be obtained from Mrs. Emma Gordon

Sunday 13th April
Catptain's XI vs. Chairman's XI (Home)

Well, the weather over the last week has got the better of us and so the Catptain's XI vs. Chairman's XI game will have to be put off until later in the year.

Although this afternoon was sunny and breezy it was not enough to dry out a very wet pitch.

Still, we did get quita a lot of painting done!

Thanks to those who stayed to help, and let's hope we have better weather next wekend.

Thurday 24th April
vs Heads & Tails CC (Home)

The first game of the season saw a relatively easy win for the home team.

The pitch was soft and stroke play was not easy, but it is to Mike's immense credit that we played at all. Details are sketchy at the moment, but I do know that we Rob Keight opened, kept wicket and top scored with the bat.

Sounds a very odd game to me!

Sunday 27th April
vs. North Devon II NDL3


The very changeable weather meant Mike waited until just after 9am to finally decide that we were going to be able to play. At 10am as I was walking down the village to get some eggs to use in the baking it started to rain.... but we played anyway.

Grey and chilly was entered in the scorebook under conditions along side ND IInds in the toss won by box. It was not a surprise to be asked to bat first on a very soft pitch, the same one as we had used last Thursday.

Mike and Peter posed for a photo on the way to the crease and unfortunately Mike was on his way back to the pavilion before Phil had got the telephoto lens sorted out. A 3 ball duck was not what we wanted from our main run-getter! R. Kelly also accounted for Peter for only 5, leaving us on 2 for 11. Lots of mid-pitch discussions between Phil and Charles ensued, mostly along the "Let's try to stick about until Jeremy arrives..." lines. Phil was giving the fielding side kittens by playing very very late, a tactic that allowed him to judge the pace of the ball, slow, slower and slowest.... Charles kept the fielding side interested by lobbing them catches, but nobody was able to cling on to anything so the pair were able to see things through and settle the nerves.

With 56 on the board and the slower change bowlers on Charles lost his off bail, but he had managed to delay getting out for long enough to be replaced by Jeremy. Now Jeremy rarely looks lithe, but he was looking more than averagely knackered having come hot-foot from child-wrangling duties at his daughter's birthday party. He adopted the same tactic as Phil, playing the ball off the pitch and settled in quickly. Phil had now been in for 20 overs and was freeing himself from the early shackles with a series of lovely cover and straight drives. Jeremy also got into the act, showing his class by lofting a couple of huge sixes on his way to 44 not out. When Phil finally went there was some doubt about his final tally, particularly as Dave rushed the scorer by getting out for a third ball duck, but Steve steadied things and we ended on 180 for 5. Of that we were sure, but it was not until the end of the match that we managed to work out that Phil had missed his ton by only 4 runs...