The under 14 winning streak came to an abrupt end last night as we were trounced by a spectacular Granta side. For me their batting was a delight to see, although it did hurt me and the boys in the easy way (but professional) they picked up their runs. They batted first, and there must have been at least 4x sixes planted to mid wicket from balls which were maybe a little short, but very straight-and looking for a little bit of solace, if the batsmen had missed these they would clearly have been LBW. Our fielding comittment, although not quite alert at times, was quite good, with two catches held, and with several players getting in the way of 'scorchers' from the batsmen.

Granta finished with 162 after 20 overs. I believe that the score, and the professional way which Granta went about their game, destroyed the confidence of our team. Not much detail to report about our batting, other than we posted our lowest score ever of 25-with Nick Blackburn, and Joe Tyrell getting two wickets a piece.! Plenty of room for improvement on technique and psycolgical approach.

Chris Threadgold