On a fine day but with some early moisture in the air, The Willows won the toss and inserted the Bradley Nuttall XI. Whereupon Nutts as skipper of the Bradley Nuttall XI produced his first masterstroke, promoting Sam Davis to open. Sam responded with a very well batted 44 and with George Harper (43) the score reached a promising 113/3. They faced some accurate and economical bowling from John Masefield and Tony Gray.

However change bowler Ryan Cutts got two wickets in his first over, the second being a great catch by Anup Nathu to dismiss the dangerous Tim McConnell second ball. Our opening bowlers Luke Courtney and Hamish Wright returned to both bowl beautifully and take the last 5 wickets for just nine runs.

The Willows got off to a steady start, but the ever dangerous Nutts picked up two quick wickets to reduce us to 38/3. In his second spell he removed Anup for 39. Thankfully, then Ross Bayliss and Jeremy Wilson combined well to add 41 runs and take us to the brink of victory – with two overs left we needed only 14 runs, and had five wickets in store.