Report by Daniel Mortlock:

FAS enjoyed a completely dominant performance against Fladbury today, winning by "just" 8 wickets only because of the efforts of the Fladbury opener James Martin, whose 106* dominated their first-innings total of 198/9 - their second highest score was just 14. The flip-side of this was that most of our players had a great time of it: Harry Houlder (5/20), George Houghton (2/32), Fraser Houlder (1/26) and Rob Harvey (1/16) all took wickets; and James Houlder (102*), Harry (31) and George (52*) all made runs for fun.

It might be tempting to feel sorry for the Fladbury players, but that would be to ignore the dismal day out from future FAS legend Daniel Mortlock. In the first innings he was for some reason allowed to bowl his full allotment of 10 overs, taking no wickets while being smashed for 53 runs. As if by way of compensation, he was then given the coveted number three slot, which he deflied by playing one of the worst innings in club history. Faced with the left-arm spin of Fladbury's S. Guy, Daniel was so at sea that, after a few balls of wild flailing, non-striker James Houlder came down the wicket to give him some instructions (basically: watch the ball from the hand). The result of this was that Daniel was bowled next ball, through the most enormous of gates between bat and pad, for a five-ball duck. Taken in isolation, Daniel's match return (0/53, no catches and a duck) was the second worst performance in club history; but it was even more dismal in the context of today's otherwise dominant FAS showing, with the rest of the team combining to take 9 wickets at 12.44 with the ball and then averaging 185.00 with the bat.