The 2nd team were scheduled to entertain our good friends the Heathcote Arms’s 1st team (hereafter HA) in a home match on Thursday 13th April.

El Presidente received a phone call the night before from HA’s skipper Pete Harrison saying that he wasn’t able to get a team together given the 2nd team of HA had played on the Thursday and their usual 1st team players were not available. Being the accommodating person he is, El Presidente agreed to re-schedule the match to the 11th May which was agreed by all.

Subsequently, El Presidente realised that the 11th May is the first night of the County Championships at our illustrious venue and consequently, El Presidente contacted Pete Harrison to advise that we had no option but to claim the game by default. Pete Harrison – ever the Gentleman – agreed to this and the match was defaulted.

Not in any way how we want to accrue our points this season but as The Toaster eluded to – ‘a win is a win’ despite the circumstances.

Captain El Presidente told Good Housekeeping Magazine:

It is a shame that we couldn’t play the game – obviously the preference is to gain our points through OTB results but this time it wasn’t to be. I am sorry for Heathcote Arms that they could not raise a team – they still remain very good friends of the club. We have a hectic summer, with the County Championships being hosted here (shameless plug!), and the Summer Cups so it simply wasn’t possible to play the game on another date.