On Thursday, Fielding took the Year 5&6 Boys Cricket team to Spikes Bridge for this years Featherstone SSP Cricket Competition. It was a hot day but we were excited to compete as felt we had a team that could play some great cricket today.

We were drawn in a group with Lady Margaret and Dairy Meadow and Lady Margaret first. We won the toss and opted to bat first and played some confident shots to set a score of 285. On the field, we took a number of wickets and kept Lady Margaret's score low as they finished on 215.

Going into our second game against Dairy Meadow we knew a win would see us through to the quarter finals. We won the toss and bat first again. We found a few boundaries and scored 267. In our fielding innings we improved again as we bowled and wickets and made some excellent catches. Great play kept Dairy Meadow scoring high and they finished on 203.

We won the group and drew Oaklands in the quarter finals. Again, we opted to bat first and possibly played our best batting innings of the day as we hit multiple boundaries and ran singles whenever they were available. We set our biggest score of the day, 323, which we knew would be tough to beat if we bowled as well as we had been. Oaklands were  good in bat but only managed 241.

St. Mark's were our opponents in the semi finals and again we were due to bat first. St. Mark's played well and took a good few wickets from us as we maybe searched for the boundary on too many balls. We set our lowest score of the day, 233 which was definitely a beatable score. We composed ourselves before going out to field though and started strong as we took some early wickets. It was nervy innings but we were over the moon when St. Mark's finished on 220.

Little Ealing were waiting for us in the final where we lost our first toss of the day as they opted to bat first. Our bowling was accurate, our focus was strong and we played with determination. All this resulted in Little Ealing finishing their innings on 201. Going into our batting innings we just had to be sensible and pick our shots and trophy was ours. We did just that and even hit a 6 in our final ball to finish on 282 runs.

The boys were ecstatic as they lifted the trophy to be crowned to Ealing champions and have now qualified for West London Finals. A huge well done to our whole team today!