If you were one of those writing in to the kncb complaining that the tension seems to be out of the league 4B because ACC4 is winning everything, you can rest assured. The excitement is back. As the fourths are not touring in England this year they made a minitour out of the Groningen away game, playing on grass in Deventer on Saturday and heading up to check out the rumours about the Groningen night life before our league match.

As you know equipment is always a big issue with boys, and with cricket boys even more so. So it should come as no surprise that quite a few of us actually rented a hotel room to store their cricket luggage in before picking it up in the morning to head out to the cricket field. We were blessed with the presence of Denise Hannema who stood her ground amongst the men in many ways, and we have now asked her to come and do all our lbw appeals for us (she was the only one to get a lbw given and also bowled their skipper clean). Nagesh bowled exceptionally well. Guy batted very well. Dicky could not be stopped running between the wickets, Patrick had an engaging performance as an umpire, Tim and Richard Wolfe were pleased with the ducks can come back in rule we played on Saturday (and kept coming back in for more mallard), but for some silly insomniac reason thought it was still Saturday on Sunday and the pair were on a pair, got their pair as the whole thing started to resemble the shape of a very similar sounding fruit. So all is still to play for in 4B, cause we wouldn’t want to deny anyone an exciting finish.