Club founder Pete Hollman tells us that the 1980s Pacific veterans drew this match. Hopefully he might write match report here.

Unfortunately I only arrived in time to see the final over & Adrian Duthie gamely hanging in. It was a hugely successful & enjoyable day with notable stats award going to Tony Summerbell who finally made his 100th appearance & winning the record for the biggest gap between matches. All this & falling flat on his face on landing when bowling his 1st delivery. Including his blow on the toe when batting & Adroan pulling a muscle I cannot recall where, everyone else survived & the defibrillators packed away until next Summer when the exercise will be attempted again but on a Sunday. I may be even tempted to make it myself. Cheers Pete.

Here’s what youngest vet Ian Lay said about it “Hi all, Just wanted to say what a great day it was on Saturday. Lovely to see so many former Pacific players playing and turning up to support us. I think we can say it was a fun game and and we al contributed to the Veterans being undefeated in 2018. A big thanks to Crossbats for hosting the game. They were great as always. Looking forward to doing this again next year. Winter well. Folks. Ian.

XII from Peter Hollman, Steve Lay, John Baglivi, Nigel Wilkinson, John Hill, Tim Mileham, Ian Lay, Craig Jones, Tony Summerbell, Jonathan Hardisty, Mike Alexander, Stuart Roberts, Adrian Duthie & Darryl Roberts

Greyed

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Crossbats v Pacific Toss won by Crossbats

Crossbats innings  R  M  B  4  6 Spiro   lbw b Davies   18  0  0  0  0   Wright   run out Duthie    58  0  0  0  0   Carter   c & b Davies   0  0  0  0  0   Lawrence   st Holliday b Jones   43  0  0  0  0   P Alexander   not out    23  0  0  0  0   Deano   not out    30  0  0  0  0   S Skinner   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   A Skinner   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   McAlpine   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Shirley   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Sayers   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0    Extras (b 7, lb 3, w 26, nb 0) 36      TOTAL (31.0 Overs) 206-4

Fall of wickets:  1-46 , 2-46 , 3-144 , 4-146

Bowling  O  M  R  W    Darryl Roberts   6  0  34  0    Jim Davies   8  2  34  2    Tony Summerbell   3  0  16  0    Ian Lay   4  0  18  0    Adrian Duthie   3  0  28  0    Craig Jones   4  0  44  1    Tony Tambyrajah   3  0  22  0

Pacific innings  R  M  B  4  6 Ian Lay   b McAlpine   17  36  34  3  0   Matt Holliday†   b Skinner, A   5  9  12  1  0   Jim Davies   c Skinner, S b Skinner, A   6  21  12  1  0   Steve Lay   c Sayers b McAlpine   3  26  9  0  0   Craig Jones   b Shirley   3  10  14  0  0   Kevin Alexander   b Skinner, A   12  53  43  2  0   John Hill   b Skinner, S   10  15  13  2  0   Adrian Duthie   not out    23  0  44  3  0   Darryl Roberts*   b Skinner, A   0  8  6  0  0   Tony Summerbell   c Shirley b Lawrence   5  11  8  1  0   Mike Alexander   not out    2  0  4  0  0   Tony Tambyrajah   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0    Extras (b 5, lb 8, w 12, nb 0) 25      TOTAL (29.0 Overs) 115-9

Fall of wickets:  1-12 [Holliday] , 2-27 [Davies] , 3-32 [Lay] , 4-40 [Jones] , 5-40 [Lay] , 6-54 [Hill] , 7-87 [Alexander] , 8-89 [Roberts] , 9-100 [Summerbell]

Bowling  O  M  R  W    Skinner, A   11  4  21  4    McAlpine   6  0  20  2    Lawrence   5  0  27  1    Shirley   6  2  15  1    Skinner, S   5  0  24  1