Tom Scrase won the toss and elected to bat first, knowing that chasing can be hard at Middleton Stoney and aware that the possibility of showers later could make a run chase even harder. ​ Tom and Ackers opened the batting and John was quickly tucking into the bowling whilst Tom played his part but in less dominant fashion. With 60 plus on the board off the first 15 overs, Ackers thought he should dominate a pretty decent offie for fear of the runs drying up. The resultant sw

A bit of building for the future today, with an OLCC side of average-age less than 30. The OLCC win the toss and rarely elect to bowl first on the newly laid, early season pitch. No less than four seamers at captain-keeper Nick Hayles' disposal; the first two of which, Will 'Don't sack' Mackay and Vikesh 'VP' Patel, both make early inroads. They may have had more as edges a plenty fly through the gully and down to Third Man. At 40-2 and after 7 overs a piece, the new Gillers

Our heroes arrived and Gillers was Gary Grumpy at being made Skipper for the day. His Huw Maw did not get better as he lost the toss and we were sent into the field. Giraffe and H7, in for Haylo and Granster today, will open the bowling. And they bowled well despite the young Elvastonians showing no respect for their elders; wiping good length balls from outside off stump to the leg side boundary with upsetting regularity. RNP bowled some interesting stuff from behind the ump