In fact our bowling and fielding wasn't bad. The highlight was Tom's catch, quite likely to remain the best of the season. Not only was the ball travelling fast and low to his left, but the position of the batsman was also unexpected, four yards down the wicket. Later, Gregory attempted a one-handed catch too, off his own bowling. Opinion was divided as to whether he dived full-length (Simon's description) or fell over (his own), but in any case he got only a fingertip to the ball. Several throws hit the stumps, without quite producing the run-out that always seemed likely, and Paul kept efficiently. Many balls went in the air, uncontrolled but far from fieldsmen. All in all, 191 was slightly flattering to St Stephen's.

Rob Burvill was wrong about the tea, but he was always likely to prove right about having enough runs. It was, in fact, far too many. Simon speared the second ball of the innings to gully. Adrian walked in the most gentlemanly fashion for a very thin edge to the keeper, and was later seen retrieving his batting gloves from an inoffensive rhododendron bush. Kevin tried to pull one that didn't bounce. Paul came out of the nets and made a transit of the ground, like Venus across the sun, pausing only to overbalance and get stumped; and soon afterwards Tom was also leg before. All this before the score reached 30. John Cooke restored some respectability, supported first by Mark and later, more actively, by Duncan; but when he was out nobody stayed with Duncan. A little more application might have got the margin of defeat down into two figures, perhaps.