A hot afternoon at the picturesque Monkton Combe ground saw the Methodists batting first, Alex Nash and Mark Robinson enjoying the conditions as they piled up 125 runs for the first wicket. Charlie Constable eventually removed Nash for eighty before Terry Sandys (2-27) claimed a couple more with his tantalisingly slow deliveries - the score now 144-3 from 26.1 overs.

David Baker joined Robinson (59) to add 51 for the fourth wicket until Ollie Duguid snared the latter and brought Stuart Green to the crease. Baker (65*) and Green -renewing their partnership from the previous game - put on 48 runs in eight overs and pushed the score on towards a competitive final total of 252-5 at tea.

Hampset began their chase cautiously, only forty four runs being on the board when their second batsman returned to the thatched pavilion in the fourteenth over. Ashley Gilder (26) and Harry Goldsmith (33) added forty one for the third wicket, before Goldsmith and Constable then took the score to 164 from thirty five overs. However, good work with the ball from Graham Smith, Richard Turner and Darcey Green ensured the home side never scored quickly enough to challenge for ultimate victory, although Constable (59) kept the boundaries flowing until late in the innings. Nash and James Green latterly secured two wickets apiece as the game reached its conclusion to ensure the Methodists finished a very pleasant afternoon with a comfortable 68-run victory.

Daniel Shearn