Another sweltering day of Academic cricket and mixed fortune and outcome.

In short, we lost the game by 5 wickets with 4 overs to to spare to Davenham cc at Davenham.

With a solid foundation from Ben Clark (83) and Jamie Spencer (37) we were cruising at 150 for 3 and then collapsed to 165 all out in 36 overs!
Then again with fine opening spells from Ben, Shrirang, Tej and Jo and brilliant catches from Sumay and Tej we almost choked Davenham to 80 for 5 and then allowed them to get away !

Not to take anything away from the opposition, they in summary batted and fielded way better than us collectively. Vagaries of cricket, what is said by wise people, is so very true!

But spirited cricket and well fought out till Davenham scored the winning runs is what makes us proud! Also, with 3 sets of dad/son combos playing together (Adam/Alfie, Matt/Ben & Suman/Sumay) and with juniors and seniors all having fun together is what Academy cricket is all about !

We now look forward to our next game at home against Northwich CC!