Report by Joss Dare:
And so to Temple Grafton, a happy hunting ground for FAS cricketers, orienteers and hopeful cartographers since 1984. The usual glorious TGCC welcome and tea awaited us - and, unfortunately, the usual weather also. We struggled on through the TGCC innings, generously allowing them to amass 189/9 in 41 overs. The highlights were not so much the six Houlder wickets but to see H. out-bowled by J. to the tune of four wickets to two. The innings was also garlanded by some excellent bowling by the ever-swelling ranks of FAS juniors, with good spells from Zoe Dare and Jamie Dare and, in particular, Charlie Prifti (aka Spawn of Satan) who sent down six immaculate overs for only seven runs.The FAS response was near stillborn. Satan (Sr.) and Dare J. (Sr.) were untroubled in accumulating 36 for no loss in 10 overs before the weather closed in, sense prevailed and all concerned repaired to the boozer to dream of what could have been.
Report by Joss Dare:
Our other fixture from yesteryear [Indeed, we've played more matches against Temple Grafton (30) and Fladbury (29) than against any other teams. - ed.] produced yet another stonking performance. We have royally thrashed these chaps for many a year now and this, if anything, further exacerbated the trend.
The Brouhaha Bunch smashed their way to a monstrous 186/4 in 35 overs, a splendid display notable for a wondrous opening stand of 128 between the brothers Hall - Thwabs scoring a splendid 44 and Tom an epoch-making 89. This both despite and because of the participation of a quite extraordinarily irritating Lancastrian wicketkeeper.
In reply Fladders could only muster a paltry 61 all-out, with the wickets shared around evenly enough among the B-boys: White 2; Morty 1; Siebs W. 2; Siebs M. 1; and Toby Reynolds taking an excellent debut tour wicket - c&b too, which is always satisfying.