Fourth Team Finish For Summer

The Fourth team went into the game with an interesting balance of seven juniors and the youngest Adult aged 52.

Captain Andy Grout won the toss and elected to bat. Chairman and opening batsman Nick Wake again played nicely as he scored 46 as the Fourth Team well placed at 75-1. But despite a couple of further batsmen getting in, including Harry Grinham who made 21, wickets started to tumble. Hayes needed a win to confirm promotion, and their bowling attack showed why they deserve promotion as the Fourth Team slipped from 100-2 to 146-9 in their 45 overs.

The Fourth Team bowled as well as they had all summer and at 62-3 Hayes were in a bit of trouble. Under 13 Alex Davies bowled an impressive five overs for just nine runs, but Hayes had a strong batting line up and got over the line with four wickets down.

So ended another season. Lots of juniors have shown great promise and this bodes well for next year.

The end of season drinks were as ever entertaining and as the the last notes of "Sweet Caroline " drifted on the breeze the younger element were heading off in Taxis to Aylesbury. Sadly the Fours we're either too old or too young to join them.