The 4th highest defeat in runs was as emphatic a crushing defeat for Pacific on a lovely sunny day at the picturesque ground in Cambridge as the honour was tamely lost.

Skipper Gleadow won the toss and inserted the oppo in a timed game. Jon Brown's opening over saw two fours and a wicket but he was the only Pacific bowler who could manage a maiden as Pacific struggled throughout to wrest control from the vibrant students' batting.

Atkin struggled for consistency but was very unlucky that three catches were shelled off him. The skipper too could not staunch the flow of runs either. Korgaonkar was the pick of the bowlers and thoroughly deserved his wickets but even he bowled too many full tosses. The ground fielding was generally good but, Holliday aside, the catching was poor as JH, JBe, JG, JW, SL, AK & AR all shelled chances of varying difficulty.

After a good tea there was an abysmal batting performance. Hollman was cleaned up by a great ball off stump cartwheeling towards the keeper but the rest was poor. Korgaonkar 9* and Lay - top scorer with 12 despite a damaged finger, provided some worthy resistance. The game ended when the skipper played on.

In conclusion, an underprepared Pacific line up struggled in either their 1st games or their 1st game on grass & are up against a G&C line up which improves year on year to the point where they can now boast 1 blue & 3 Camb 2s

Steve Lay Pete Hollman Jon Webley Chris Atkin Joe Bennett Matt Holliday (wk) John Hill Allan Roberts Jon Brown James Gleadow (capt) Aroon Korgaonkar

Reserves - Toby Chasseaud, Justin Hess

Gonville & Cauis College v Pacific

Gonville & Cauis College innings  R  M  B  4  6 L O Driscoll   c Holliday b Korgaonkar   87  0  62  11  2   J Hepburn   c Holliday b Brown   10  0  6  2  0   A Kennedy   c & b Korgaonkar   28  0  42  2  2   T Seely   b Hill   83  0  62  10  2   M Khan   b Gleadow   41  0  32  3  1   LDK   run out Webley    2  0  4  0  0   W Brando   not out    0  0  0  0  0   Cox   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Scrase   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Ekbohur   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Dover   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0    Extras (b 7, lb 2, w 4, nb 0) 13      TOTAL (36.2 Overs) 262-6 dec.

Fall of wickets:

Bowling  O  M  R  W    Jon Brown   6  1  35  1    Chris Atkin   7  0  46  0    James Gleadow   7.2  0  40  1    Aroon Korgaonkar   7  0  59  2    Peter Hollman   3  0  35  0    Allan Roberts   3  0  20  0    John Hill   2  0  19  1

Pacific innings  R  M  B  4  6 Peter Hollman   b Brando   9  27  23  1  0   Joe Bennett   b Brando   2  19  19  0  0   Matt Holliday   c & b Srase   5  18  16  0  0   John Hill   b Dover   5  36  36  0  0   Jon Webley   c & b Hector   2  4  3  0  0   Chris Atkin   c & b Dover   0  1  6  0  0   Steve Lay   c Hepburn b O Driscoll   12  30  25  0  0   Aroon Korgaonkar   not out    9  47  39  0  0   Allan Roberts   b O Driscoll   10  27  23  1  0   Jon Brown   b O Driscoll   0  5  4  0  0   James Gleadow   b O Driscoll   3  10  11  0  0    Extras (b 5, lb 0, w 12, nb 3) 20      TOTAL (33.0 Overs) 76 all out

Fall of wickets:  1-13 , 2-18 [Hollman] , 3-20 [Holliday] , 4-22 [Webley] , 5-24 , 6-37 [Hill] , 7-47 [Lay] , 8-71 [Roberts] , 9-71 [Brown] , 10-76 [Gleadow]

Bowling  O  M  R  W    Scrase   6  2  7  1    Brando   5  1  11  2    Hector   6  0  12  1    Dover   6  2  12  2    O Driscoll   5.4  0  14  4    LDK   3  0  11  0    Cox   2  1  2  0