Team: Mike Eadon (Captain), Chris Gooderham, Graham Line, Pete Burnell, Joe Alsop, Jimmy Morton, Stuart Alsop, JP Eadon, Gary Speller, Rory Tuck, Dave Cooper.

It's always a pleasure to visit this venue. Napton have been playing Bourton & Frankton for over ten years now and many of the 'old faces' are still with them.
It is quite remarkable how each year they manage to produce a very good batting track from an area that has been the centre of a football pitch during the winter.
Their ground team are to be commended.

Napton welcomed new player Pete Burnell on his début for the team.

The visitors won the toss and put the home team into bat.

Napton's bowlers put in one hundred per-cent effort throughout the allocated 40 overs.
However, this was a surface that favoured batsmen and anything off a line and length was punished.
Short balls seemed to just pop up and levitate whilst waiting to be slogged.
Stuart did manage to penetrate the batsmen's defences. His second session was perhaps as aggressive and accurate as he has been for a few seasons.
At the end of their innings Bourton & Frankton were 209-4
Stuart Alsop 7 overs 2 Maidens inc. a Wicket Maiden 4-22

Although the home team had scored at just over 5 runs an over it was a target that Napton thought was reasonably 'gettable'.
Chris went after the attack and accumulated one of his top scores for the club being caught on 67 runs.
'New boy' Pete was with Chris for a partnership of 89 runs and also smacked a half-century for himself. Mike was going well but fell to a catch on 23, Stuart got into double figures for another 'Not Out'.
With just 19 runs for a win and with batsmen to spare Napton ran out of overs on 191-6.
Chris Gooderham 67 runs 6 boundaries.
Pete Burnell 50 runs 7 boundaries inc. 2 sixes.
Mike Eadon 23 runs 3 boundaries inc. 1 six.
Stuart Alsop 13 runs Not Out 1 boundary.