On the best day of Show Weekend, STC won the toss and sent the home team into bat. The extensive fielding warm-up paid immediate dividends after a Gus Wiseman direct hit accounted for Tyler Bruce, run out for 0. Then Kelvin Scott and Max Smail played positively in a 115 run partnership to set the team up nicely at 119/2 after 28 overs. However, the next twelve overs were complete carnage as The Willows collapsed to 161 all out. All STC bowlers deserved credit particularly Ethan Burns with his four wickets.

The skipper Tom Mušić, in a throwback to the Dipak Patel days, opened with spin. Thomas Bird crafted a superb innings, dispatching even good deliveries to all corners of the ground. A faint nick through to the keeper accounted for him short of what would have been a highlight-laden century. Ethan Burns and James Jacques saw them home in just the 22nd over. It was apt that the match was completed with a six.

This was St Thomas’ second victory in a row. Match host Keith Yardley noted the vast improvement seen in the side over recent years; a credit to Andrew Cavill and the STC coaching staff.