Harptree Villages CC 224-8
Stanton Drew CC 85
HVCC won by 139 runs

Would you believe it? You wait 13 months for a victory and then two come along at once. We look like a different team now. We bat a long way down (even yours truly was a partner in a stand of 53) and we have a good mix of bowlers now that our youngsters are more experienced. We have been a joke team for over a year but yesterday's demolition of second-placed Stanton Drew means that other clubs won't be so quick to laugh at us now.

I don't think for one second that we'll start winning every game but I do believe that, with something resembling our first-choice team, we will be competitive in every match. It's just a shame that I will miss the next two games. Although two weeks in sunny Greece is some kind of consolation, I guess!