James Smith almost single handedly took on the cream of Langlebury Youngsters all aged between 17 & 21, by taking wickets, scoring runs & even a catch - well it was a caught & bowled, but in truth this was a strong side we were up against.

In name only 2 medium XIs were up against one another but the home side were certainly medium strong & the vacant date in their fixtures had occurred due to an unexpected loss in the regionals of Nation Village Cup - a trophy they reached the final of at Lords in 1993. The visitors meanwhile, had endured the loss of 2 key players in the build up & a missmatch was feared on Friday. To Langlebury's entire credit they played it well & hard & with merit & despite romping home easy winners never patronised.

Pacific's players lead by by James Smith could be proud too of playing their part in the game & the rural charming surroundings lifted certian performaces especially The Sumudge.

Supporting Smith's wickets were Ben Gibson (+ a run out), Jon Webley & Nick Fuller; & Shayne Rees came back well when suntan lotion made the bill too slippery to hold, & was unlucky. Matt Callender's first game back too & he was brilliant in the field again. Batting, Smith, Webley & Hollman all got past 25 but class simply shone through & it was not the test or even the match it could have been.

XI- v Langlebury are:- LahrieMohammed, James Smith, Peter Hollman, Matt Callender, Joe bennett, Ben Gibson+, Jon Webley*, Shayne Rees, Nick Fuller, Dan Bird, Matt Holliday. 12th Moses

Langlebury CC v Pacific

Langlebury CC innings  R  M  B  4  6 G Couder   c & b Smith   3  4  7  0  0   R Channer   c Fuller b Smith   20  49  24  0  0   A Gunning   b Smith   42  22  22  0  0   R Williams   b Webley   25  50  35  0  0   R Oxley   c & b Smith   12  9  15  0  0   D Walker   c Holliday b Fuller   90  85  76  0  0   J Gunning   b Gibson   30  58  55  0  0   B Gunning   run out Gibson    9  13  9  0  0   S Stewart   not out    1  6  2  0  0   A Cheeseman   not out    5  4  2  0  0   R OReilly   did not bat    0  0  0  0  0    Extras (b 7, lb 3, w 3, nb 2) 15      TOTAL (40.0 Overs) 258-8

Fall of wickets:

Bowling  O  M  R  W    Shayne Rees   8  0  46  0    James Smith   8  0  46  4    Nick Fuller   5  0  41  1    Jon Webley   8  2  34  1    Peter Hollman   5  0  27  0    Lahri Mohamed   3  0  31  0    Ben Gibson   3  0  22  1

Pacific innings  R  M  B  4  6   b Cheeseman   4  9  12  1  0   Ben Gibson   lbw b Cheeseman   14  31  20  1  1   Jon Webley   c R Channer b Williams   31  48  51  5  0     lbw b Gunning   1  13  6  0  0   Lahri Mohamed   c G Couper b Gunning   0  8  8  0  0     lbw b Gunning   3  27  21  0  0   Peter Hollman   not out    27  64  65  4  0   James Smith   c J Gunning b J Stewart   39  31  41  6  0   Shayne Rees   c OReilly b J Stewart   9  9  19  2  0   Nick Fuller   run out    0  2  3  0  0   Matt Holliday   not out    4  1  1  1  0    Extras (b 1, lb 3, w 6, nb 5) 15      TOTAL (40.0 Overs) 151-9

Fall of wickets:  1-7 , 2-30 [Gibson] , 3-47 , 4-51 [Mohamed] , 5-55 [Webley] , 6-67 , 7-80 [Rees] , 8-147 [Smith] , 9-147 [Fuller]

Bowling  O  M  R  W    A Cheeseman   6  0  25  2    R OReilly   6  1  21  0    A Gunning   5  2  2  2    R Williams   4  1  9  1    J Stewart   7  1  22  2    E Gunning   5  0  13  1    R Oxley   2  1  1  1    D Walker   2  0  15  0    G Couper   1  0  13  0