Report by Daniel Mortlock:
Having won the toss and chosen to bat, Barrases Chris and Sasha headed out to open our innings, only for Sasha to head straight back in, dismissed for 1 in the 7th over. Chris and Henry Hall (34) then stayed together 'til the 20th over, leaving the score at 78/2 and the match perhaps in the balance . . . until James Houlder joined Chris's for one of the club's biggest partnerships. They put on 191 runs in exactly 34 overs, in the processs demoralising both the opposition and the scorer who, rather than asking the fielders for the name of the Adastrians' sxith bowler, simply put "Grey haired bloke who we didn't get a name for". Chris was eventually dismissed for 136 (second highest ever for FAS, but James batted on to be 87 not out. The Adastrians did take a few late wickets, but our momentum was such that we went past our previous highest total, and we eventually declared on 287/5.
The Adastrians never looked like threatening our total, so the drama revolved around whether we could dismiss them in the remaining overs. Wickets fell steadily as Joe White, George Houghton and Freddie Burnett all managed to take 2/24, while Harry Houlder decided to be both more penetrative and more expensive, taking 3/65 from his epic 16-over spell. This was in part due to superb support from the Barrases (Barrasi?) in the field: Sasha took one catch to match his one run; Chris also took a single catch, but backed it up with four stumpings, hence equalling the club record for most fielding dismissals. Appropriately, Chris finished the match off with the last of his stumpings, and one presumes that having finished up with the ball in his gloves he kept it for posterity.