1st XI v King's Canterbury

Result: Won by 90 runs 
Review: Felsted 1st XI v King's Canterbury 1st XI Felsted 270-9 dec ( Hassan 114, Wells 58, Foley 45) King's 180 all out (Burns 4-19) Felsted Won by 90 runs. 

Felsted were inserted on a morning ideal for bowling. It was credit to the top order then that they took the game away from King's with aggressive running after the early demise of Hebron to a rash shot. Hassan and Wells then built an impressive partnership that saw the bad ball being dispatched and the good one going for a single. Wells fell to a turning ball on 58 and Hunter-Jordan fell cheaply to a soft dismissal. Hassan and Griggs re-built the innings before a run out. However, at lunch Felsted were well placed at 171-4 from 32 overs. After lunch Seager, who had looked comfortable, fell first ball LBW, but Foley (45) scored at an excellent pace to support Hassan who passed three figures during a period of play in which Foley had dominated the partnership. It was another example of how partnerships ebb and flow and that sitting in at times is needed. 270 in 51 overs was an excellent total.

Bowling a side out on an improving surface was going be tough and the 50 minutes prior to tea were going to be key. Burns and Price opened up well, with Price clean bowling the opener with the first ball. Burns chipped away at the other end and to take 4 wickets in that session was to prove crucial. After tea King's battled hard and each batsman made their wicket hard to get.

Hebron broke the key partnership and then it was a slow but steady taking of wickets. King's approached the last 12 overs with 4 wickets left, but with 8 to go that had been reduced to 2. When Hunter-Jordan held on to a nick from Hebron, Felsted had 3 overs to force a win. Wells who had juggled his bowlers well, turned to Hassan who had not bowled much during the previous 57 overs, but his ability to turn the ball was going to trouble the tail-enders and so it proved when a very full ball did enough to gain the LBW with the batsman right back in his crease