This week has seen dire warnings of climate emergency from Extinction Rebellion and David Attenborough, claims from the 'new IRA' that they were behind the murder of a journalist, and, perhaps most troublingly of all, Diane Abbott having a drink on the Overground. It is important then to keep things in perspective when evaluating games of cricket. However, the extinction of all life on earth would have the silver lining of preventing any further Pacific top order batting collapses against London Fields.

To appropriate the words of the great Troy McClure: "Hi, I'm Toby Chasseaud, and you may remember me from such top order performances as 0-3 last year against the same oppostion". This year's three wickets (Duncan, Syed and Dinsey) may have been a little lower quality than last year's (Stanley, Ireland, Sharma), but the rescue job from the lower order didn't go as well and the resulting game doesn't really bear much writing about. We made only 59 and saw them chase the total down in embarrassingly short order, so rather than in depth coverage, you may instead enjoy a few observations:

• Mutz top scored with 19 - interestingly enough he top scored in last year's Fields fiasco too, so perhaps this is all his fault in a cosmic way?
• In the field, we were rather shown up by a spectator who collected a four and pinged in a throw from the distant deep backward square leg boundary to hit the stumps on the full
• A quick delve into Pacific's excellent record books tells me that 59 doesn't quite merit inclusion on Pacific's list of lowest scores of all time, which currently range between 31 and 53
• We narrowly avoided the fifth 10 wicket loss in Pacific history thanks to Fields opener Turner deciding to try and finish the game by scooping a Howes yorker. He may have been more than good enough for us, but he's not Jos Buttler and his middle stump departed the ground to give us a brief moment of enjoyment

The game was all done by 3:15, giving us time to entertain the sunbathers further with a 20:20 beer match in which Fields did their best to bosh every ball in both teams possession into the nearby Lido. Serious injuries were thankfully avoided while Fields put another 197 on the scoreboard, with Pacific replying with a more respectable if still distant 118 - particular mention to be made of Chairman Haill, who, no doubt put out by being carded at 11 in the main game, strolled in at 4 and put together 26* to top score. Sam Howes also got a ball that pitched on the edge of the cut strip and turned in so much that it hit middle stump about an inch off the ground. Tricky.