Pacific lost its first game of the 8s season against table topping Goodmayes in a reasonably close game last night reduced to 14 overs per side. The difference in the teams proved to be the last minute absence of Pacific's 2 strike bowlers Allum and Roberts. Batting first, Pacific scored 133-4; Webley and Campbell getting into the 30s and newcomer Sharaz getting a useful 20. Pacific were never able to put a brake on the scoring and the winning runs were scored by Goodmayes in the penultimate over with only 2 wickets down. Lucius and Arjoon the pick of the bowlers. Bob Willis (off his longer run) took a clean bowled at the death to bring back some good memories. A game played in excellent spirits but ultimately comfortable victory for the oppo.

Jon Webley "Good pacy opening bowlers restricted us to 35 off first 5 overs not too many gimme's on offer. we ended up 133 for 4 which we though would give us a good chance but their batting was pretty strong and we didn't bowl that well especially missing DR & RA and they knocked off the runs with 8 balls to spare. If we had got off to a better start we may have got 150 which would of been a winning score, and if we had our two strike bowlers we may have tied them down and stopped them getting the runs."

VIII:- Lucius Faisal, Aroon Korgaonkar, Sammy Purcell, Darryl Roberts, Jon Webley, Rob Allum, Jonathan Campbell, & Fraser Grant. 9th:- Giacomo Bridgett. Pitch 1

Pacific v Goodmayes

Pacific innings  R  M  B  4  6 Jon Webley   b Rezwan   30  0  23  1  2   Sammy Purcell   b Khiza   4  0  3  0  0   Jonathan Campbell   b Abdul   34  0  0  5  1   Safraz Shirag   c & b Khiza   22  0  0  2  0   Conrad Chandler   not out    12  0  0  1  0   Lucius Faisal   not out    2  0  0  0  0   Fraser Grant   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Aroon Korgaonkar   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0    Extras (b 4, lb 4, w 12, nb 0) 20      TOTAL (14.0 Overs) 133-4

Fall of wickets:

Bowling  O  M  R  W    Khiza   4  0  30  2    Cil   3  0  30  0    Imran   1  0  20  0    Abdul   4  0  23  1    Rezwan   2  0  24  0

Goodmayes innings  R  M  B  4  6 Omair   retired    50  0  0  0  0   Saqib   c Grant b Faisal   23  0  0  0  0   Umir   not out    37  0  0  0  0   Rizwan   not out    2  0  0  0  0   Abdul   b Campbell   8  0  0  0  0   Khiza   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Cil   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Imran   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0    Extras (b 2, lb 1, w 0, nb 0) 3      TOTAL (13.4 Overs) 134-2

Fall of wickets:

Bowling  O  M  R  W    Conrad Chandler   3  0  36  0    Lucius Faisal   3  0  27  1    Aroon Korgaonkar   4  0  37  0    Safraz Shirag   2  0  25  0    Jonathan Campbell   0.4  0  6  1