Nets should be superb tonight in this lovely summer weather. The CDO is alas unable to make it, but in his place I am sure someone will wantonly victimise players as soon as the light fades ... we should do some fielding drills tonight.

Does anyone know of any unavailabilities for the weekend? As far as I know, everyone from Saturday is okay (we're checking on Nellie) and I assume Ducky will be available again. Dilemmas!

I thought Saturday's game was yet another we should have romped. To give them their due, EV came back strongly and tightened the reins just when it looked like we'd done all the hard work. I thought our fielding performance generally held up in the hot weather, and the two EV players who got runs really rode their luck early on. Some good bowling from Matt to keep it tight at the death, and we set ourselves a target at least 70 runs short of what EV ought to have made.

The top 6 all batted well I thought, everyone got going, but there was a loss of impetus at the vital time. No blame to anyone though, another very good all round effort, where we were just slightly short in a game we dominated for spells. The cup game should be a belter if they produce another wicket like that.

Special mention to Nick for his tremendous attempt to steal all the pizza at the interval! ;-)