You'll Win Nothing With Kids

The Fourth Team certainly spanned the ages. The team was made up of two under 13s, an under 14 and two under 15 girls, two guys in their 30s , one in his 40's and three older guys in their late 50's.

As has become the norm of late Captain Andy Grout lost the toss and the Fourth team were invited to bat first. Jim Turner , back after a series of prenatal classes looked to make up for lost time hitting a rapid 24 before being caught in the outfield.

Dick Highton batted sensibly for 26 and the Fourth Team were nicely placed at 79-2 at half way stage. That rapidly became 81-5 and alarm bells were ringing as an out of form Steve Wale was joined by debutant Hannah Davies. Those alarm bells were soon silenced and after a 114 run unbeaten partnership saw the Fourth Team finish on 195-5. Steve Wale showing that form is indeed temporary with 70 and Hannah scoring an excellent 29.

Freddie Newman and Natalie Gurnett took the new ball and made fine use of it restricting Burnham to 23-1 off the first nine overs. Finn Wade and Hannah Davies kept up the good work with a mixture of seam from and leg spin and Burnham were struggling at 69-2 off 21 overs with Hannah taking a deserved wicket via a spectacular diving catch from Steve Wale.

Captain Grout and Krishna Mohan then kept the pressure on with the skipper taking three wickets, two of them stumpings by Jim Turner who had a fine game behind the stumps.

Steve Wale took a couple of wickets as well and fitting the youngsters finished it off with Gurnett taking the last wicket to finish up with impressive figures of 1-12 from 6.3 overs as Burnham were bowled at for 176 in the final over.