Lost! Colts 114 for 4, Long Marsden 115 for 3

Well it was a wet dull Sunday with a performance to match and a few of us had clearly been suffering from a rather too enjoyable Saturday night. So I put our first defeat down to a hangover!

I lost the toss and we were asked to bat. Graeme and Dave got off to a reasonable but not electric start, with Graeme retiring after the 5th over. I came in but we them lost both Dave and Trevor relatively cheaply with catches off the roof. John joined me, but sadly the scoring rate never got going against some slow accurate bowling. John also failed to make a mark as did Tim, but that left just a few balls with Graeme and I returning to take us to a woeful 114. I was never going to be enough.

We had to bowl really tightly and take wickets early to have any chance. Whilst the bowling wasn’t terrible, we only took one wicket early on and they reached 60 odd after only 5 overs. Tim and I took the last 6 overs and when there opener retired, the runs started to dry up, but they only need the odd single and wide to keep them on track. They reached our total in the 11th over.