After a particularly sweaty and angst-ridden start to the season it was a pretty amazing first day. July weather resulted in the bar selling out of ice cream and lollies and if we'd had any After-Sun behind there we'd have sold out of that as well.
At The Park we won our first toss, put Yalding in the field and watched as the scoreboard spun round rapidly to an amazing first innings total of 275 on a wicket on which most people thought 150 would be very difficult to chase. Andy Allon got his first ton under his belt at the first time of asking, George and Pup got their first Park runs, a pretty good performance all round.
Onlooking was an HPB guest from Lancashire, once one of the higher ups in the County Club management who had some nice things to say about the ground and was especially flattering about Hobbo's lightning stumping off Smuggler's bowling. Yalding were never on the rate but managed some lusty strokeplay and kept us entertained.
What could be better? How about the 2s beating Elham? Yep, to round off the perfect day, in the last over, the 2s clinched satisfactorily large win over our nearest neighbours.