Despite this the experienced team put up a spirited fight in a game that swung several ways and went down to the penultimate over.

IBM batted first on what was a rather green and slow wicket and Sway got off to a pretty dismal start - with some generally indifferent bowling and fielding all round allowing IBM to coast along at almost 5 and over to reach 100 for the loss of just two wickets. Sway slowly dragged themselves back into the game  - John Grasham leading by example and eventually taking a 5 wicket haul despite not really being a wicket for fast bowling. Nilantha Atapattu bowled a bemusing spell and deserved his wicket - a straightforward catch at slip by Dave Marshall. Terry Patch also exploited the conditions to pick up 3 wickets including a trademark one handed claw catch at first slip by you know who....In the event IBM were bowled out for 174 - certainly at least 40 more than they should have been allowed to get and a pretty tricky run chase.

Sway's reply got off to a poor start when both Chris Hammond (top edge) and Ross Clark (bowled) were dismissed cheaply. However a 56 run partnership then developed between Atapattu (32) and skipper Grasham (32) but just when Sway seemed to making great progress Atapattu was caught right on the boundary at full stretch by IBM's tallest player - and Grasham went down the wicket to the spinner, missed and was stumped. Dan Stevenson *27) and Rob Steadman (38) then batted were sensibly taking the score on to 139 in an unspectacular fashion, however, IBM started to squeeze the run rate with some accurate slow bowling. When they were both dismissed attempting to force the rate, Sway suffered a mini collapse, eventually needing 20 off the last 2 overs with 9 wickets down. Dave Marshall did briefly raise hopes of victory hitting the first two balls of the penultimate over for six, but was bowled the very next ball.