We struggled to raise a team, it being Sunday and with several players away in Cornwall and Barbados. But Sunil of the GTs, ever generous, gave us three players –major players too, all of whom shone. I won the toss on a lovely day, in a 35-over match. I elected to bat, as we have won all our games when we bat first. We opened with our guest player, Ivan Mulford and a new V&A man, Richard Adamson. Richard looked the part when he whacked a 4 and less so when he was out next ball. But when he learns the vagaries of the pitch he will excel. Ivan was a wonderful batsman, technically correct and versatile. He scored at a brisk rate, accompanied by another GT man, Mark Baring, a powerful hitter. Mark had had one hour’s sleep, having partied in Warwick, yet was seemingly unaffected by being sleepless, […]