Sunday XI win first game of the season!

Having won the toss on a gloriously sunny afternoon, Bearsted elected to bat first (great decision). Tim Lush's 64 helped to build a platform for an excellent score of 225, with important contributions coming from Simon Barker (34), Raj (36), Chairperson Patton (31*) and Yannick (45*).

Fielding with 10 men on a hot afternoon after a wonderful tea (many thanks to Christine Oakland) was always going to be a challenge, which was only made harder by Gareth's ball-by-ball investigations into the comfort of all the Bearsted Green benches. Despite an excellent opening spell from Steve B (8-1-30-1), Bearsted struggled early on as the Bredgar openers shared a 101 run stand. However, with a never say die attitude and winning focus Bearsted managed to pull things back. An inspired bowling change by Raj led to Raj (4-33) turning the game on it's head by removing both openers, whilst some athletic fielding by DP brought about a game changing run out. Simon (3-23) came on to rip through the Bredgar middle order, but they continued to inch closer to the winning total. The worried Bearsted faces soon turned to smiles all around, however, as a Ben Lush full toss special wrapped up the victory!

The six points gained from the win takes the team to 1 overall for the year - and up to the heady heights of 11th. There is now a one week break in Sunday league action.

Finally, many thanks to Robin for scoring the game.