After earlier rounds of the competition had been severely disrupted due to the wet weather, it was great to see two games in each of the men’s and women’s Windmill Whack competitions played on Sunday in bright sunshine at Upminster Park and Coopers School.

The Hunter Hurricanes were in action twice at HQ and picked up one win and one loss to just about stay in contention for a place at Finals Day. In the early match the Canes were undone by a Mack inspired Kushoom Tigers, where half centuries for brothers Steve and Rob saw the Tigers themselves keep alive their own title dreams. The Canes bounced back though in the later game where Billy Wright making a rare half century to set up a win over 2020 champions the Govani Maestros who are now all but out of the competition having completed all four of their group games.

With three group games still to play the table looks like this:

Chairman’s Choice P3 Pts 6
Govani Maestros P4 Pts 6
Apple Financial Firebirds P2 Pts 3
Hunter Hurricanes P3 Pts 3
Kushoom Tigers P3 Pts 3

Remaining games:

Hurricanes v Firebirds 8th August
Tigers v Choice 8th August
Firebirds v Tigers TBC

At Coopers the Tolan T-Birds were also involved in two game in the women’s event, and they to won one and lost one of those contests. In their game against the Apple Financial Phoenix the T-Birds missed out as the Phoenix made it three wins from three to secure a top two spot, but the T-Birds then recovered to beat the Ace Avengers later in the day, a result which means the Avengers can no longer make the Final.

With three group games still to play the table looks like this:

Apple Financial Phoenix P3 Pts 9
Ace Avengers P4 Pts 3
Burley Bandits P1 Pts 3
Tolan T-Birds P2 Pts 3
Chairman’s Chiefs P2 Pts 0

Remaining games:

T-Birds v Chiefs 8th August
Phoenix v Bandits 8th August
Chiefs v Bandits TBC
T-Birds v Bandits TBC

There is plenty of other T20 action involving UCC also coming up over the next few weeks.

Tomorrow night (Wednesday) at Upminster Park we take on Roding Valley in the in the semi-finals of the Essex Sunday League T20. Upminster overcame Rainham in the previous round and will be looking to make it to the final with another victory.

On Thursday and Friday this week the U19 side will look to continue their good form with back to back away games. On Thursday they travel to face Hutton at the Polo Ground and the following night they make the trip down the A127 to face Leigh on Sea in the last of their group games.

And the Essex T20 SMASH returns next Wednesday (28th) when Rainham visit Upminster Park for a top of the table encounter. Upminster’s SMASH group games then conclude on the 5th August when they host Newham.