“Vengeance is ours” said a gleeful Match Manager as The Willows erased last year’s loss to the Combined Secondary School’s team with a comprehensive win over this year’s very keen Schools side.

Looking in early trouble at 34/3, The Willows reached a respectable 264/7 thanks to an unbeaten 101 from Andrew Fullerton-Smith, 60 from Jonathon Davidson and a calmly stroked 40 not out from Mike Johnston. In reply, the Combined Schools never recovered from the opening attack of James Stevenson 3/19 and Justin Vaughan 2/12, then the ‘spin twins’ Peter Younghusband 2/5 and Marty Kain 3/3, and were all out for 40.