Match Report

It was a strange weekend for the firsts as a comprehensive win on Saturday against 2nd placed Egerton, was followed by an equally comprehensive defeat against bogey side Roe Green on Sunday. With the forecast in midweek predicting little or no cricket for the weekend, we should, I suppose, be grateful that both teams got games in where some clubs didn’t bowl a ball all weekend. All that kicked off on Saturday with Egerton winning the toss and electing to bat in the damp and drizzly conditions. Danny Higham made early inroads with two wickets with only twenty on the board, before Ryan Ayres clean bowled danger man Abid Ali who had scored more than a third of his team’s runs in the first twelve games in all competitions during the early season. At that stage, it looked like Egerton may fold like a deck of cards, but they managed to put together a couple of useful partnerships in the face of nagging slow stuff from Mason Turner (3-31) and Ben Hamilton (2-35) and the final total of 157 felt like one of those that could go either way. An opening partnership of 43 settled the nerves and after Joe Settle departed for 20, Max Meyer (pictured) arrived at the crease like someone whose bus was due as he produced an array of shots all round the wicket, scoring 41 out of a partnership of 63 with Sam Dorsey. Despite Egerton’s own slows then getting a bit of a stranglehold, Sam (60no) and Ryan Ayres (24no) saw it through with a comfortable seven overs to spare, to propel the side, temporarily at least, into second spot.