With rain showers predicted it was a valuable toss for Sway skipper Jon Grasham to win - to bowl first with new ball on a covered pitch. The pitch in fact was a fine flat surface, and the Sway bowlers soon realised that there were going to have to work hard and not rely on the wicket to generate wickets. The Bournemouth opening pair of B Lindsey and R Scott made a good start albeit were luck not to lose Scott when an apparent edge to keeper to keeper Adam Clark was not given. That chance aside, Bournemouth grew in confidence especially Lindsey an tall powerful batsman who was apparently fresh from a 100 for their seconds.

The opening pair saw off Grasham and Jack Walton who were replaced by Steve Thistleton and Nilantha Atapattu. Atapattu was bowling some tight stuff from one end, pressing the Bournemouth paid to try and score of Thistleton's faster bowling. Scott had just flicked a legside delivery to the boundary when the next ball Thistleton responded in the best possible way to bowl the opener. It was still far from plain sailing for Sway and Lindsey in particular was not relatively untroubled and was punishing anything wide or full. Indeed Bournemouth via Lindsey and Isles moved the score onto 122 before Isles was caught by Hall at first slip off the returning Jo Grasham. At this point it still looked like Sway might be looking at chasing a tricky total of 180-200, however, Sway now put the brakes on the Bournemouth innings with some tidy bowling. Atapattu was as reliable as ever and was unlucky to finish with 0-35 of his 10 overs, whilst Steve Thisleton again bowled well to record 2-36 of his 10 - both bowlers showing good economy. With Grasham and Walton back in the attack, Bournemouth's innings began to peter out. Grasham finally had Lindsey caught behind for a fine 82, and from that point the incoming Bournemouth batsmen found it very difficult to score runs, and wickets fell quite quickly. 

With just 2 overs of the Bournemouth innings remaining, the heavens opened and the players rushed off for an early (and most excellent) tea. On resumption, Bournemouth finally reached a relatively modest total of 157-7 off their 42 overs - a disappointing total for them given their excellent start. Grasham finished with 3-30 off 10 and Walton 2-36 off 10. Charlie Smith also bowled - 0-12 off 3.

Due to time lost, Sway were set a target of 137 off 33 overs - at 4.11 per over. In reply Sway started fairly comfortably before Adam Clark was caught behind with the score on 24. However, this was as good as it got for Sway and Alex Hall and Joe Rodway batted superbly together in a partnership of 86 to effectively seal the game for Sway. Rodway in particular was on fine form with many of his shots likely to have put him on the leaderboard of the British Open golf. Rodway was finally bowled on 48 however Hall kept going and brought up his fifty in true agricultural fashion with a top edge for four. By the time Hall was bowled for 54, the game was up for Bournemouth and it was left to Atapattu and Grasham to knock off the few runs needed for valuable.

Whilst the vagaries of the HCL points scoring system for rain affected games meant that winning the game had no better effect for Sway than not playing it at (!!), it was of course vital not to lose, and this was a banana skin avoided for the boys.