Lovely day today- blue skies, soaring temperatures (for us anyway- well into the twenties) and- CRICKET!

After a long start to the season during which just about every game has been rained off, today we had our single wicket competition. In case you are interested this works as a kind of tournament in which you compete against others in pairs- two overs each, with runs halved for a wicket. The rest of the team field.

And in the draw- I was paired first up with William!

Did I go easy? Could I have lived with a defeat by my 11 year old son- who will surely be giving me a thrashing soon enough?

Sorry- no I had him out 5 times in two overs. Then gave him a nice slow short one, which he put away for 4.

I was out in the quarter finals to someone bowling so slowly that it was just about impossible to get under the ball. Grrrrrr.

Here are the players- athletic honed bodies all.