Dorset Tour 2015

Two matches at Sandroyd School, the most delightful of settings, and a wonderful evening chez Cayford at his old rectory in Compton Abbas made for an excellent weekend. We won both games; on Saturday we posted 258 for 3 in our 35 overs (Buscombe 132 n.o. and Cannon 54) and looked to be coasting to victory when Simon Osborne’s 7 and 8 came together for a partnership of 140 in very short order. Finch and Buscombe finally stopped the rot and we bowled them out for 220. More details to follow. On Sunday Joe Cannon’s Casuals stepped into an unexpected gap in the fixture card and scored 99 (Miles Ritchie 6 for 40), whereupon we knocked off the total for one wicket down (Hornby 25, Chapman 32 n.o. and Cohen 24). More details to follow.