Hants Div 6 SW
Match Day 1 Round up

Happy times for Bournemouth

In the battle between two teams relegated last year, Bournemouth 4s took a dominating victory over Mudeford 2s. Is this evidence of a strong Bournemouth team this year, or just an off day for Mudeford? Who knows? It is far too early to start drawing conclusions but a good start for Bournemouth. Their fourth team is joined at the top of the table by their fifth team, who also took an impressive win against the Suttoners, a good showing indeed and early evidence that Bournemouth might have some strong youngsters coming through.

Joining the two Bournemouth teams at the top of the table on 23 points are Winton 3s with a good win over Beaulieu. Also Godshill, who fluked their way to a completely underserved victory in their match. Pywell Park, Bramshaw and Bransgore all also recorded victories tucking in at the top of the table.

The only other thing of note is that there were two games that were cancelled. I presume this was due to the vast amounts of rain over the last few months has made it tricky to prepare a playable pitch. If this is the case I feel for the players in the teams that did not get to play as the weather on the day was perfect for cricket and it must have been frustrating.

So we are up and running; do these early results mean that Bournemouth are the team(s) to beat? Or have they peaked to early? Do the post match discussions about ‘there are plenty of positives and lessons learnt’ that the teams that have lost had (because you can guarantee that they will have had them) mean anything? Will this show them striking back against their next week’s opponents? Or is it just another manifestation of the delusional positive thinking that everyone that plays cricket has to fool themselves with to get to the game? We have all summer to find out……..

Match Day 1 Table