Rain FrustratesEverone....................

With Ashfield taking on the Green at home and missing several of their key players such as Bromhall who was taking the weekend off to go Train spotting down in Hampshire with his pal Carts!!!!

On a very green pitch with rain around Ashfield won the toss and bowled. Jimmy "Rapid" Reyburn and Zubair Khan bowled very well and the Green were in trouble at 96-6 some good batting by Chris osboune who hit 50 took them up to a total of 178 a fair bit more than expected and we have to be disapointed at not getting rid of them more cheaply.

Ashfield started their reply and with the Skipper standing in for Ollie T whilst he is back on rugby duty for Moseley unable to hit the ball off the square for 9 overs it looked like it might be a bit of a struggle, as soon as he got out the runs began to flow with PJ getting 30 Chisa hitting 47 and Zu Zu batting well to get to 40 not out. Ashfield resumed after a break for rain needing 90 runs off 17 over's and all looked well, but with 20 odd runs required and 18 balls with 5 wickets in hand to get the runs Ashfield looked well on course to win, but after a long discussion the umpires, decided that it was too dark to continue and Ashfield ended up with a winning draw in a season full of winning draws it was more frustration with 5 games left now there is still a fair bit of time. A good bank holiday weekend is paramount to sustaining any sort of challenge on the top position. Five games is a very long time and to see how the table changed over the first 5 weeks of the season should be encouraging to any of the top 6 sides all I am sure are looking at the top spot currently occupied by Olton & WW who despite a very healthy lead will have to keep performing all the way to the end of the season.