The left / right opening partnership of Lahri Mohamed (33*) & Vincent Croft (20) outstayed the London Fields' opening salvo as the Hackneyites sought to defend their sub par 101.

It was not until the 22nd over with the score already on 77 when 7th change bowler Ben Saunder beat Croft's defence & his off stump. But by then, only 24 runs were required, 9 wickets in hand & 18 overs remaining. Jon Webley joined Lahri & saw to it that there would be no further optimism for the visitors with a quickfire 13* & as Lahri deservedly lead off the teas with 16 overs to go, Pacific couldn relax in the afterglow of a comfortable win.

Earlier, it was the bowlers lead by newcomers Naveej Vinod (4-30) & Toby Chassaud (3-8) both on debut who impressed.

despite winning the tos, Fields were never allowed to settle & were tested regularly by the accurate seam of Jon Brown & James Gleadow who made the early inroads.

Captain, Rob Bastin did not have many options beyond his 5 bwolers but none of them let him down as the guests were regularly pegged back - only left hander Paul Tessdale (43) opening solidly but failing to find any support after Jason Lord (21) was out.

The brusk East Anglian captain's post match conference picked out the team as the winner, but highlighted Naveej Vinod as MOM for his 4 wickets for 30. Here's to the rest of the season.

Stato's corner : The 22 no balls bowled by London Fields is the highest ever against Pacific beating the previous record of 19 (President's XI '96 and Chats Palace '00)

XI:- Rob Bastin+*, Steve Lay, Toby Chasseaud, Jon Brown, James Gleadow, Lahri Mohamed, Justin Roy, Jon Webley, Vincent Croft, Naveej Vinod & Jig Ramji.

12ths:- Aroon Korgaonkar, David Morahan, Peter Hollman & Howard Russell

London Fields v Pacific

London Fields innings  R  M  B  4  6 P Teesdale   c Bastin b Vinod   43  76  60  6  0   B Saunders   b Brown   4  9  9  1  0   A McIndill   c Webley b Gleadow   5  10  10  0  0   C Wood   lbw b Gleadow   0  1  1  0  0   J Lord   lbw b Chasseaud   21  69  33  2  0   C Skinner   b Vinod   0  1  1  0  0   Andy M   c Croft b Chasseaud   6  21  10  1  0   Arthur S   b Chasseaud   1  22  4  0  0   D Lane   b Vinod   1  3  3  0  0   T Graham   b Vinod   4  10  8  0  0   Carl   not out    0  1  4  0  0    Extras (b 1, lb 0, w 10, nb 5) 16      TOTAL (29.1 Overs) 101

Fall of wickets:  1-13 [B Sanders] , 2-24 [A McIndill] , 3-24 [C Wood] , 4-84 [P Teesdale] , 5-84 [C Skinner] , 6-93 [D Lord] , 7-94 [Andy M] , 8-95 [D Lane] , 9-100 [T Graham] , 10-101 [Arthur S]

Bowling  O  M  R  W    James Gleadow   6  0  15  2    Jon Brown   7  1  27  1    Jig Ramji   4  0  21  0    Naveej Vinod   7  1  30  4    Toby Chasseaud   4.1  1  8  3

Pacific innings  R  M  B  4  6 Lahri Mohamed   not out    33  99  64  3  0   Vincent Croft   b Sanders   20  86  63  1  0   Jon Webley   not out    13  13  10  3  0   Justin Roy   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Steve Lay   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Rob Bastin   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Jig Ramji   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Naveej Vinod   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Toby Chasseaud   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Jon Brown   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   James Gleadow   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0    Extras (b 5, lb 3, w 6, nb 22) 36      TOTAL (24.0 Overs) 102-1

Fall of wickets:  1-77 [Croft]

Bowling  O  M  R  W    T Graham   5  1  11  0    Arthur S   3  1  10  0    Carl   4  1  11  0    D Lane   4  0  16  0    Andy M   3  0  14  0    C Skinner   3  0  11  0    B Sanders   2  0  21  1