George Ashlin was captain who won the toss and elected to bat first.

Freddie and Aidan was opening batsman. Unfortunately Freddie was bowled out with a wicket on 4.3 over and Aidan caught out in 7.1. George A continued with an amazing batting, in the heat he retired with 8 4s with a run of 35. Hutton fielded tight in the first 10 over . Jack was unlucky he was strike out shortly. Angad stepped in and stayed strong with Teddy. Teddy was dismissed replaced with George F who batted and aimed for a 6. Angad stayed strong till end of over with Elliot on last 2 balls. 20 over score of 135.

Elliot open bowl for Upminster, George bowled Hutton batsman A. Wilson with a superb catch by Angad. The first wicket of the night by Angad in second half. The game was very close, Upminster tighten the fielding and pushed back the fielding where necessary . The team worked well together fielding in the extreme heat. Hutton batsman Aaron retired. Our match ball was lost at 18 over. At 19 over Jack caught out Hutton’s batsman from Aidan’s bowl followed by Will’s fantastic bowl to Hutton M. Murphy, his hit went straight to Teddy catching it without a blink of an eye.

One ball left Upminster was winning, the last ball ended with 5 runs for Hutton and a wicket. This lead the umpires resulting in VAR to count the last runs across Upminster fielders . How it happened was too quick to think, the last ball hit by Hutton went from one fielder to another, then wicket keeper attempted a wicket resulting to Aidan picking up the ball where he had 2 batsman running in his direction, the ball in his hand with the team running on the cricket pitch, he threw at the other end of wicket for the fielders to chase the ball again and finally dismissing B.Smith with a wicket to end in a tie.

Lesson learnt HOLD THE BALL!!