Today’s 2010 Allstars Festival was a huge success, enjoyed by all. We played a two x 15 over innings per side game, with the batting order reversed in the second innings, which meant that everyone got to participate. In the end, “Young Boys of Barnes” captained by Gren, beat Devers’ eponymous team by 24 runs. The picture shows Maxie presenting the match ball to the victorious captain — with defeated captain Devers in the background.

For me, the highlight of the game against English Heritage (which Maxie has already blogged about below) was the point at which the Allstars run rate was a breezy 54 runs per over, which put us on target for a projected first innings total of 1,890.
Sadly the home team tightened up their bowling considerably and managed to restrict us to 152. Still, it was nice while it lasted.

Lost by the annoying margin of 1 wicket. They crept over the line with eight balls to spare. 152-7 played 155-9.

Stephen Harty top scored for us on debut with 65, with support from James Morgan’s 32.

Stephen also took 4 wickets, Tony Grant snaffled a brace, and there were one each for Morgsy and KP.

A very close, exciting match – just a shame the final wicket eluded us.

Allstars 75-3 off 20.

EH won toss and will bat.