Pacific rocked up at Highgate CC’s utilitarian ground in amongst the Crouch End cricket & tennis clubs with an end of season feel. The JP Morgan Chase XI was the strongest to face them & therefore the likeliest to record their 1st win against Pacific at the 5th attempt.

Winning the toss & batting first was a good start in this twenty20 & Gavin Wainwright sustained this with a 12 ball 25 (retired). Morgans were in no mood to see the evening through tamely & superb 4 over spells from Barrett 0-10, Knight 1-20 & Mike 0-12 strangled any free flowing stroke play. Hollman 27* (40 balls) & Purcell 27 (retired) of 35 balls & Hardisty 20* (20 balls) made important contributions but in the context of the game Pacific were probably about another 50 runs short.

Having said that, Moses Hutchinson-Pascal gave Pacific a dream start with 2 wickets in the 1st over but in complete contrast his nightmare 2nd haemorrhaged 25 runs alone incl 9 wides & with Mike taking a liking to Simon Smith’s 2nd over the dye was cast after 4 overs when Morgans were on 53-2 needing just over a 100 from 18 overs which they achieved with 34 balls & 7 wickets to spare.

XI :- Conrad Chandler*, Peter Hollman, Aroon Korgaonkar, Jon Webley, Simon Smith, Adam Long, Gavin Wainwright+, Jon Hardisty, James Smith, Sammy Purcell & Moses Hutchinson-Pascal

Pacific v JP Morgan Chase Bank

Pacific innings  R  M  B  4  6 Gavin Wainwright   retired    25  0  12  4  1   Jon Webley   c Knight b Zapphire   3  0  16  0  0   Sammy Purcell   retired    27  0  35  3  0   Peter Hollman   not out    26  0  40  3  0   Conrad Chandler   run out Knight    1  0  3  0  0   Adam Long   c Zapphire b Bavit   8  0  15  1  0   Jonathan Hardisty   not out    20  0  20  4  0   James Smith   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Simon Smith   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Aroon Korgaonkar   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Moses Hutchinson-Pascal   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0    Extras (b 4, lb 2, w 29, nb 7) 42      TOTAL (20.0 Overs) 154-3

Fall of wickets:  1-38 [Webley] , 2-91 [Chandler] , 3-112 [Long]

Bowling  O  M  R  W    Barrett   4  0  10  0    Mughal   1  0  22  0    Knight   4  0  20  1    Zapphire   4  0  20  1    Mike   4  0  12  0    Shah   2  0  16  1    Mirza   1  0  10  0

JP Morgan Chase Bank innings  R  M  B  4  6 A Mirza   c Wainwright b Hutchinson-Pascal   0  1  1  0  0   D Sconce   c Wainwright b Hutchinson-Pascal   1  0  3  0  0   Mike   retired    25  0  23  2  1   N Barrett   retired    29  0  23  3  1   S Knight   c Korgaonkar b Chandler   22  0  11  1  2   F Khawaja   not out    25  0  24  4  0   Mohammed Mughal   not out    24  0  20  5  0   B Shah   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   Zapphire   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   J Davidson   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0   B Dhillon   absent    0  0  0  0  0    Extras (b 5, lb 2, w 26, nb 0) 33      TOTAL (14.2 Overs) 159-3

Fall of wickets:  1-0 [Adil] , 2-4 [Duncan] , 3-122 [Knight]

Bowling  O  M  R  W    Moses Hutchinson-Pascal   2  0  28  2    Simon Smith   2  0  25  0    James Smith   2  0  19  0    Adam Long   2  0  27  0    Jon Webley   3  0  27  0    Conrad Chandler   2  0  17  1    Aroon Korgaonkar   1  0  5  0    Gavin Wainwright   0.2  0  4  0