I turned up on time for a change to discover I was in fact captaining The Willows for the day with the added pressure of being part of The Willows team that was rolled for 54 in the same fixture last year! I was firmly instructed by Mike to break tradition and bowl first after the embarrassment of the previous year and he would have been happy with the start! We soon had the Otago Boys’ 19/4 after some great bowling from Edward Nuttall and Willie Williams. Michael Collins batted extremely well while wickets were falling around him before finding some help from Scott Hunter to post a team total of 87. Michael Peacock and Dion McCall were very tight through the middle overs while also taking a couple of wickets each.

The Willows lost wickets but never looked in too much trouble with James O’Gorman being the backbone of the innings with a well compiled 30. The pick of the bowlers was J Hunter who snared two wickets.

Once again thanks must go to the Otago Boys’ High team who travel a long way to take part in this fixture each year.