Mildenhall v AVCC
After a few weeks without a game AVCC travelled to Mildenhall on Sunday 24 August with 10 players keen to get some more cricket before the season ran out. The oppostion could only muster eight so Tim Gent kindly volunteered to swap allegiances and it became a 9 v 9 on a gently sloping pitch. AVCC lost the toss and Mildenhall elected to bat. Having only seven residual fielders proved difficult, as despite an early breakthrough when Harry Flack secured an LBW with the score in single figures, batsmen 2 & 3 scored 189 and 84 respectively, and only Harry and Morgan Holden took further wickets meaning that after their 35 overs Mildenhall had made 348-3. A distraction was regularly looking for lost balls in the field adjacent to the ground! It was that sort of day, but AVCC were keen to keep their heads held high and although Mike Parr went for one to a shocking LBW decision, Morgan Holden and Simon Borthwick made 61 n/o and 78 respectively and at a decent run rate, again with many boundaries, although this momentum was not maintained and we were eventually all out for 184, although for the unusual 8 wickets and not 10 of course. But at least cricket was played, and as I write this it is pouring down during the middle of Bank Holiday Monday so we were lucky we had a chance to.
Peter Williams