Instead Ian Miller carried on from last year and brought the team home with an even more impressive display of batsmanship. Eighty one runs in 61 balls including 9 fours and 5 sixes, one of which should not have seen the ball retrieved from the bushes !! Another valiant run out from Skipper Jacobs, and a good overall bowling and fielding display kept the opposition runs down.

Photo    Team 1,    Photo    Team 2,    Photo    Team Larking !,    Photo    Milling 1, 
Photo    R Hicks,    Photo   I Miller 1,    Photo    I Miller 2,    Photo    I Miller 3, 
Photo    Miller Hicks,    Photo    R Jacobs,    Photo    Milling 2,    Photo    End of Match 1, 
Photo    End of Match 2,    Photo    End of Match 3,    Photo    J Lander A Graves. 
 

Champagne moment - Ross caught and bowled
Shampooh moment - Trevs narrowly missed run-out !!

Sunday 2nd XI played Downsiders (through conference arrangement) and drew.

The match, scheduled to start at 1.30pm at this picturesque country ground, did not get underway until gone 2pm. Woods captain Ross Jacobs negotiated the toss and elected to ask his 10-man strong team to bat.
Progress by the upper order was slow and hindered by pace bowling from Llewelyn (aged 14) and seam bowling from Shaw P (aged 13). Alarm bells rang for Woods when first change 'youngster' Shaw M (aged 12) took Edwards (7) with his first ball and Andy Graves shortly afterwards (GD). Ian Miller looked comfortable, and set for his half century but was caught on 46. Woods were in trouble at 101 for 7, with Trevor Meadowcroft (16), Greg Crawley (0), Kevin Miller (13) and Neil Saunders (0) also back in the pavilion. Neil Griffin (30*) and Ross Jacobs steadied the ship and Richard Pereth (42*) took over from Ross (15) building a seasons highest 9th wicket partnership with Griffin of 68 runs. Woods finished their 40 overs on 203 with a wicket to spare. 

Westcott were in trouble early on with a run out from Trevor. Wickets fell quickly, with only a small amount of resistance met from batsman 5 - Edwards (33). The youngsters were difficult to remove -  a credit to their technique. Wooods slowed down the pace of the bowling as darkness approached, and brothers Shaw M & P batted out the 40 overs for a total of 116-6

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Pereth 7-0-20-0
Saunders 8-1-20-2
Graves 5-2-9-2
Griffin 8-1-16-0
Jacobs 6-1-17-1
Miller K 6-1-28-0
Meadowcroft Tr 1-0-2-0

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James Lander 8 1 27 1
Jamie Goodwin 4 0 23 0
Tom Meadowcroft 3 0 15 0
Rob Hicks 7.2 1 31 1
Ron Titchenor 8 0 24 0
Ross Jacobs 5 0 48 1
Andy Graves 1 0 20 0

Griffin (67* - Photo), with his 'not out', bagged his final season's average of 81.3 (7 inns 244 runs 4 NO). Prior to this Ian was heading the table with an average of 96 and savouring the rare opportunity of ending the season on a 3 figure final average for the want of finding 16 more runs without loosing his wicket !

Woods took the field suitably replete after Sandra E's tea. The treacle pudding helped bring a sticky end to 4 victims a piece for opening bowlers James Lander (4-16) and Griffin (4-10). And Edwards put the cream on top by 'ambling' in for the final 2 wickets to leave Old Sutts (Photo) with a 'trifling' 35 runs. Delroy the 1st change bowler and our last minute standby, was unfortunate not to be rewarded with a wicket in his 3 overs contribution to the match. 

With the season all but finished, there is still some doubt in the batting as to who will head the stats table. However, although Griff looks safe on the bowling averages, James has only to find 5 more wickets for next to nothing in the last game, to not only reinforce his crown as leading wicket taker but to overhaul Griffin's average of 9.0.