Old Wilsonians (3 points) 127 all out (49.1 overs)
New Ash Green (16 points) 128-6 (42.4 overs)
New Ash Green won by 4 wickets

So close to a first win two weeks ago New Ash Green took the positives from that game and made the breakthrough this week. The key was a consistent performance in the field throughout the innings, with Micky Sumner producing his best spell of bowling and taking 4-27 in 15 overs and Ian Martin having his first bowl in the first team and taking out the middle order with 4-24 in 9 overs. Throw in a tidy spell from Vic Mayers and Old Wilsonians were under pressure throughout with only Suminda Balage Don getting past 10.

New Ash Green survived the early run out of Ian Martin and a partnership of 66 for the second wicket had them looking like comfortable winners. They couldn't quite do it without a wobble, once Marc Klus was out for 29 there was a little bit of a clatter of wickets, Balage Don again to the fore. However Matt Scanlan played the big innings he has been promising for a while and with the in form Vaughan John for company ended up 60* to see New Ash Green through to a 4 wicket win with time to spare.

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New Ash Green (20 points) 168-8 (46 overs)
Borstal (6 points) 93 all out (25.5 overs)
New Ash Green won by 75 runs

Once again neither side had an umpire and this time Borstal won the toss and inserted New Ash Green. Despite the recent heavy rain and the consequent lack of preparation batting conditions were far better than at Borstal, though this was partly compensated by both sides having rather stronger bowling attacks than in that game. Nonetheless Matthew Quantrill and John Howland looked very comfortable in adding 49 for the first wicket. They were again slowed down by the slow bowling of Taher Amijee, and he made the break through when Quantrill miscued an attempted drive. Howland followed shortly afterwards and Charlie Cutting, in his last innings before departing to Mongolia, was bowled by Robin Knight. Matt Dehaney and Lee Saunders both scored 15 before they also fell, bowled by Amijee and Knight respectively, but David Baker and Joe Elisak steadied the ship before Baker was run out attempting a quick second, having played his best innings of a disappointing season. Kieran Poole and Matt Bushe each kept Elisak company while making 4 each, but when Bushe was out with the score on 123 and less than 4 overs remaining New Ash Green were a long way short of the sort of score they were looking for in these conditions. However Elisak had by now got his eye in and was scoring off virtually every ball, while Paul Sumner took three balls to get his eye in before launching a huge drive for six over mid wicket. Two balls later he was dropped from another towering shot and after that there was no stopping the pair, 42 runs being added in the last three overs, 33 in the last two. Sumner hit another even bigger six which rolled to the far corner of the field in making 28 from 13 balls and Elisak scored from 10 of his last 12 balls to make 32*, his highest score in adult cricket. A total of 168, while still short of what might have been achieved had the top order played a little more carefully, still looked enough for victory, and the momentum had certainly swung New Ash Green's way in that final onslaught.

John Harley and Lee Saunders both struggled a touch, but Harley produced a good ball to bowl Chris Davies while Saunders produced one superb over to account for Billy Hatch. He had him dropped first ball from a thick edge which Quantrill could not quite cling onto behind the stumps then had him in trouble every ball before bowling him with a yorker from the last ball of the over. Harley then had Robin Knight caught behind, Quantrill making up for his earlier blemish, but Mark Tanday and Taher Amijee then put on 50 for the 4th wicket, with Amijee in particular looking very solid, interspersing sound defence with clean attacking shots. Paul Sumner eventually made the breakthrough, Tanday finding Kieran Poole at second slip having got away with a few edgy shots through that area. John Harley followed up with the wicket of Finch to give himself 3-45 and thereafter the Borstal tail offered little resistance, Sumner taking 2-15 and Matt Dehaney 2-6 in two overs as New Ash Green completed a comfortable 75 run victory.

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Gore Court 208-5 (37 overs)
New Ash Green 126-6 (38 overs)
Draw

The initial drama was in obtaining opposition for this game, with the fixture list opponents, Belvedere, pulling out early in the week because they doubted their ability to travel to the game due to road closures in their area caused by the Tour de France. The Weald were picked up quickly enough from the bureau, but on Sunday morning phoned to say that three of their players had dropped out on the morning and they couldn't fulfill the fixture. Having been rained off for a number of weeks this was not the news the Sunday side wanted to hear, but remarkably another bureau fixture was found, with Gore Court 1st (and on a Sunday only) XI. Potentially something of a mismatch, despite Kieran Poole being given to the opposition to make up their numbers, but with both captains being experienced in old fashioned proper cricket a decent game was made of it. Gore Court batted first, and thanks to two John Harley strikes were soon in trouble at 10-2. Harley took 2-16 in an initial 7 over spell, but that was as good as it got for New Ash Green, with a partnership of 146 for the second wicket eventually being ended by David Baker on his maiden bowl for the club (or indeed anyone). Lee Saunders also produced a good late spell, bowling the opening bat for 100 and taking 1-16 in 6 overs, and there was a wicket for Olly Harding before Gore Court declared on 208-5.

Kieran Poole opened the bowling, an honour to remember as he will forever share the status of opening bowler for Gore Court 1st XI with Martin McCague, who does the job on a Saturday. John Harding and Chris Sooknanan put on 41 for the first wicket, with Sooknanan somewhat riding his luck, there being some surprising dropped and missed catches from the young Gore Court side. Once both openers had fallen on the same score there was a brief flourish from Lee Saunders and Olly Harding, but once Saunders had gone for 18 it was simply a matter of survival, something which Olly Harding, with 24* and Dave Harley (14*) achieved with apparent ease. In the end a slightly disappointingly tame draw, but nonetheless a decent result against a strong side and an indication of the slow but steady progress being made by the Sunday side.

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