Coming into this game, the 9th of the season, the Venturers were yet to win a game. After a couple of overs of this one, bowled by Chintan and Duncan at The Thursdaynighters, it was clear that we would rarely get a better chance to win a game. After 8 eight overs, with the batsmen finding both Chintan and Duncan unplayable, the score was 12 for 6, Duncan having taken a hat-trick. Arvind also 'stumped' their best batsman off Chintan, but this batsman was allowed to stay in, on the principle that when a side is 12 for 6, it is not the done thing to dismiss a batsmen who absent-mindedly strays from his crease when the ball is with a wicket keeper who is standing back. The reprieved batsman managed to carry the Thursdaynighters score towards respectability, with the occasional boundary scored off Tom, James, Rob B and Roger. He ended with 40 out of the final total of 75, which was at least enough to allow a few Venturers batsmen the chance to enjoy a half decent knock.

The Thursdaynighters bowling seemed a bit more solid than their batting, but Andy W and Rob T were in no mood to get the runs in singles and Andy in particular walloped some decent deliveries to the boundary. After a few big hits each, both were out looking for more boundaries. Arvind too was intent on getting the game won as soon as possible, and was stumped after a careless heave to leg. Chintan came in, played the shot of the game, an audacious late cut, and was then given out caught behind down the leg side, quite possibly off his pads, not bat. Mark H had come in at three and was content to play sensibly to the conclusion, and playing a few nice strokes of his own, he and James ushered the Venturers toward victory, which came when a young bowler, urged strongly by his captain not to bowl wides, promptly bowled a very wide wide to gift us the final run.