Parks Progress

Ben reports -

HX travelled to the picturesque setting of Newfield for our second game in this year's Parks Trophy, against Inchcolm. Asked to bowl on the sort of road that our non-Scottish contingent thought never occurred north of the border, Pradeep and Jarrad opened strongly, Pradeep in particular getting good swing and picking up a couple of wickets. The pressure didn't relent with Sandeep and Olly coming on, Olly bowling an excellent spell of 3 for 12 off his 4 overs. Ben's attempt to boost ["reduce"? - Ed] his average by cleaning up the tail did snare him two wickets, although it got off to a rocky start as he was heaved clean into the neighbouring gardens first ball.

In reply to Inchcolm's 76 all out, Tom took one look at the perfect batting surface, decided he didn't like the look of it and was bowled for a duck. Shifty Junior (as he is insisting on being called) hit a sparky 13 before Jarrad and Quinny took us home with a couple of calm twenties, ably assisted by an equal number of extras. All in all a very comfortable victory by 8 wickets in 12.2 overs, with a strong fielding effort from everyone backing up some solid bowling and batting.