Sherborne 157 off 38 overs

RGS High Wycombe 126 off 21.1

Won by 31 runs

This was a good win against a positive RGS team. Will T and Charlie R capitalised on full balls threw off side and compiled as key opening partnership of 64 until Will was bowled by a low one and Charlie suffered the same fate.

After Jordan was caught off a leading edge Ferg holed out from a full toss, Sam nicked off Pat played round a straight one Ollie nicked to keeper, and JP was LBW we had been reduced to 117-7. Some late resistance from Ben L helped a recovery till he holed out to square leg off another full toss and a pleasing partnership from our debutants Ben D and Tom M took us up to the vertiginous heights of 157.

We needed early wickets but put down their gun opener off Ben D. Will W also on debut steamed uphill into the wind to claim 2 early victims with lack of bounce. RGS were steaming along themselves at over a run a ball until Oz P removed their opener caught at mid wicket. Oz mostly avoided the yellow brick road of straightness with 8 wides and a full house of extras in one over, but he did take 3 crucial wickets including one with a slowest ball that nearly defied the laws of Physics. Charlie R and Ben L offered the most control of the bowlers and Will T took an excellent slip catch off the former while the latter picked up 2 cheap wickets. The RGS collapse was akin to a teetotaller spending a first night on the ouzo, sudden and spectacular and was ended by the whirling arms of Tom M whose debut wicket aided by the soft hands of the excellent debutant Sam G with his first stumping. So we failed to fire in the middle order, we leaked too many runs with the ball and we can field 30% better yet we still won by 31 runs and showed good team spirit into the bargain.