AFTER examining the wicket, both captains would have liked to bowl first but Marek Wajzer was unlucky with the toss, so Jonathan Lewis and Justin MacMillan opened the innings for the Green.

FECKENHAM II v BARNARDS GREEN SUNDAY II

In fact, the wicket behaved perfectly and allowed Lewis to dominate for the next 12 overs despite losing his opening partner and the next two batsmen cheaply. With the score on 64, Robin Longmore joined Lewis at the crease and opened his account with a straight six off Page. The pair put on 104 runs in just 12 overs before Lewis gave Haines his first wicket. His excellent knock of 81 included 15 boundaries.

The Green now started to lose wickets and Haines dismissed Longmore for 88 (four 6s). Haines then demolished the tail to finish with figures of 5-35 as the Green collapsed to 220 all out off only 34 overs.

Feckenham made a steady start reaching 53 without loss.

Good scores from Daniels (48), the aggressive Haines, who made the mistake of padding up to a well-directed googly to be plumb lbw for 19, and number three batsman, R Simpson, who reached his half century with a late flurry, saw them progress.

They were still 27 runs short when Wajzer brought back Chris Hill and he proved too good for last man Blackshaw, clean bowling him in the 44th over to bring victory.