The Lords Taverners v Test Match Sofas was going on on the top square inlcuding such notaries as Angus Fraser, Toby Roland-Jones, John Simpson & from Sky, Mike Wederburn. All these celebs meant that the PA emanated non stop commentary & music throughout.

So Pacific's slide to defeat began when their match ended & the music stopped as Jon Webley, the game's only half-centurian, was out bowled by the game's outstanding bowler Nichols. A medium to quick left armer who swung the ball in & seamed it away prodigiously - his 5 wickets won the game almost single handedly.

Pacific's 1st wicket stand between Steve Richards (rtd hurt) Webley & Hollman was good for 121 but the music stopped, the collapse despite some middle defiance from Allum, Bastin & Tempany, floundered & when Allum was out needing 8 off 4 balls, the game plan changed to THE youngster playing out 3 balls for the draw. caught betwixt & between what to do he was out stumped 1st ball. A sad ending really as he'd been the pick of the bowlers along with Justin Hess who earlier bowled with pace & discipline.

Sunbury Chieftains v Pacific

Sunbury Chieftains innings  R  M  B  4  6 Higgins   b Hess   26  0  0  5  0   Nichols   b Hess   29  0  0  6  0   Salter   c Webley b Allum   43  0  0  6  0   Lowe   c Sub b Hollman   6  0  0  1  0   Gee   c Richards b Hollman   5  0  0  0  0   Vincent   c Richards b Hollman   0  0  0  0  0   Miles   not out    36  0  0  6  0   Burgess   c Bastin b Allum   27  0  0  4  0   Paige   c Tempany b Webley   16  0  0  2  0   Birch   not out    0  0  0  0  0   Kincaid   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0    Extras (b 0, lb 0, w 0, nb 0) 0      TOTAL (0.0 Overs) 207-8 declared

Fall of wickets:  1-51 , 2-62 , 3-89 , 4-107 , 5-110 , 6-118 , 7-172 , 8-206

Bowling  O  M  R  W    Justin Hess   9  0  42  2    Jon Webley   8  1  41  1    Luke Hollman   9  1  38  3    Darren Tempany   6  1  24  0    Rob Allum   5  2  21  2    Stu Hopper   3  0  34  0

Pacific innings  R  M  B  4  6 Peter Hollman   b Nichols   35  106  85  3  0   Steve Richards   not out    15  17  26  1  0   Jon Webley   b Nichols   76  86  66  12  2   Rob Allum   b Nichols   31  62  36  4  0   Darren Tempany   b Nichols   17  15  14  1  1   Rob Bastin   c Burgess b Paige   15  12  11  2  0   Stu Hopper   c Nichol b Paige   0  4  1  0  0   Justin Hess   b Nichols   0  1  1  0  0   Luke Hollman   st Higgins b Paige   0  1  1  0  0    Extras (b 4, lb 0, w 7, nb 3) 14      TOTAL (0.0 Overs) 200 for 8 (all out)

Fall of wickets:  1-121 [Webley] , 2-129 [Hollman] , 3-149 , 4-171 , 5-177 , 6-178 , 7-200

Bowling  O  M  R  W    Burgess   5  1  25  0    Birch   5  2  14  0    Nichols   15  3  49  5    Paige   8.4  0  66  3    Miles   1  0  8  0    Kincaid   6  1  34  0