It's cliche time! Okay we lost, and at the end of the day we're sick as parrots, but take heart boys, there were a lot of positives from that performance. The partnerships were built well, the batting generally excellent, with everyone chipping in. The look on Clive's face after those sixes was priceless and just screamed out "fine me big time". As Kieran said, we thought we had it won at the break, and despite some decent enough bowling (and some inspirational changes I might add ;-)), there was enough good clean striking from the Elton Vale boys to secure them a win. Fielding was generally good, though there were disappointing drops. Not to worry though, a point gained and excellent news of the seconds. Well done lads!

A week off now to rebuild. Nets tomorrow should be hard and keenly contested. Let's work on that fielding too. 6/10 overall, good encouraging signs - great knocks from Birdy, the CDO and Flash, and useful contributions from the rest. Thought Mark looked very useful with the ball, will be a good addition. I would like to suggest another fine for Dickie, that of calling our new played "Mike" most of the game!