Ottershaw & Hamm Moor

This felt like a match where we played well, made a fair bag of runs, but just couldn’t make enough breakthroughs with our bowling to challenge them properly. Brian played his typical patient, resourceful, cultured innings, while Steve too looked as though he could post a seriously big score, but outside those two, barely anyone struggled into double figures. Their best bowler (Hammond) kept shocking us with lifting, darting deliveries which only Brian and Steve knew how to handle.

Once we came out to bowl, our best efforts disappeared at 6, 8 or 10 an over, so despite a couple of wickets each from James and Tim, it was curtains before long. Still, an enjoyable day out in the country and some swashbuckling strokes from our two key swordsmen.