Sat 7th August 2010.

Rub of the green goes against 1st XI

Trojans II 223-9, Sway 201-9. Trojans won by 22 runs
 
With the match reduced to 37 overs, Sway won the toss and put Trojans in hoping to make good use of the ball on the covered SEPL wicket.

Trojans came out with all guns blazing however Rob Steadman soon struck clean bowling one opener. Shortly after Sway struck again when Steve Thistleton induced the faintest of edges to remove the number 3. Trojans continued to attack smashing perfectly good balls from Steadman in particular for some huge sixes. However it was not to last as Steadman claimed 2  further wickets, first opener De Costa caught at gully by Dave Marshall and the dangerous Maunsell clean bowled. At this point Trojans quick start faltered as they needed to bat in a more circumspect way due to the lost off wickets. A partnership formed between M Ball and F Khan and it was in the early stages on this that a key incident in the game played out. Atapattu bowling to Khan got a nick that was taken by Chris Hammond at slip. The batsman was already well on the way to the pavilion when amidst confused scenes it emerged that the square leg umpire has called a no-ball as a result of keeper Adam Clark's gloves "breaking the line" in front of the stumps. As is often the case, Khan went on to make a match winning knock of 93!

Tee day got worse for Sway when firstly Steve Thistleton had to be removed from the attack for running down the wicket, and then Jack Ford pulled a hamstring before he was able to bowl a single ball. The 81-run partnership was eventually broken when Chris Hammond trapped ball with his very first ball for Sway 1st XI. With Sway now into the tail enders, Khan did a pretty good job of retaining the strike. However, eventually Khan was trapped by Atapattu for the first of his three wickets and it seemed that Trojans might be bowled out for 190 odd. However some doughty batting and some dodgy bowling (fair to say Grash 7-0-50-0 is not the new Shane Warne!) allowed Trojans to post a decent total of 223-9.

Yet again Sway's top order batting line up was on patchy form. Adam Clark was trapped LBW by Khan for a duck and Atapattu was very unlucky to deflect a leg side ball off his toes onto the stumps. Alex Hall made it to 28 before also falling LBW to Khan. After Henry Thornton was bowled for a golden, it was left to skipper John Grasham partnered first with Chris Hammond (15) and then Ross Clark (41*) to try and chase down the total. Trojans slowed the bowling down and successfully squeezed the run rate. With Grasham making a slow start and Clark not renowned for big hitting the run rate crept up to 9 and over. With 8 or 9 overs  to go Grasham in particular brought out the big guns, but some pretty decent Trojans fielding kept the pressure up. By the time Grasham holed out for an excellent 60 with 4 overs remaining, the rate was alreadyl over 15 an over. With a ground alignment rivalling that of Hinton Admiral, Dave Marshall, blinded by the sun, received a tasty beamer in the ribs from Khan, hit the next ball for 4 then was bowled. Next Robert Steadman was stumped for 6 going down the wicket. By this point the game was beyond Sway, however, a fine quick fire 23* from Steve Thistleton did at least ensure that Sway picked up maximum batting points.

A decent game again a decent bunch of lads, however, a very tricky game to umpire, however thanks to David Thistleton who was on top of his game!