Captaining in Sam’s absence, Reece won the toss and elected to bowl first. Realisation set in that even in April, the Woodlands hybrid wicket was going to be an exceptionally good pitch.

The new opening bowling pair of Reece and Fahad started well but wickets were hard to come by. Ross Monaghan 3-86 and Reece Clark 2-53 took the only wickets, but all the lads put in great effort to restrict Woodlands to just 255.

From the first over though, opening pair of Ross and Azza looked to put us in control of the game racing to 67-0 off the first ten overs.

With wickets falling around him, Ross batted through the innings to see us home with two overs remaining finishing on a fantastic 130not out. Arron Brook 29, Paul Martin 27 and Tom Hoyle 23no supported Ross well with multiple 50 run partnerships. A great team performance.

18 points and a good away win to start the season. MOM was given to Ross who is kindly sponsored by Freddie and Oliver.