A beautiful day greeted the respective teams for the first match of the new year at The Willows. After electing to bat first on a hard but green wicket, the Willows side quickly found themselves in trouble early as sharp left armer Nathan Columbus proved lively and demanding. There was a fairly regular flow of wickets and no one really managed to form a decent partnership and stick around with Danny Dowds who seemed to find it easy. Dowds played some stunning strokes before being run out on 96 by a direct hit from Marcus Thompson screaming in off the point boundary.

Two hundred was never really going to be enough and despite an early breakthrough and a good late fight back, Thompson and Carr took control of the game for the visitors with a 97 run stand for the second wicket. At 100/2 the Willows side were unable to run through the order and a number of players made handy contributions to eventually get the Suburban side over the line with four overs to spare. McGregor and Stewart were the pick of the bowlers for the home side. The former, in particular, unlucky not to claim any wickets in a superb spell of 10 overs, 4 maidens, 0 for 13.