Ah the Development XI. The youngsters that are coming through for when your knees are totally shot as oppose to the slightly older Juniors who are coming through now that have no problem whatsoever in saying (quite rightly) you are old and fat. Two youngsters Messers Foy and Turner were playing their first ever game of hardball cricket. Skip a couple of generations and there was one player who had his first game of hardball cricket around the time Stephensons Rocket made its

Scooters merry band of social cricketers were split in two this week as there was a "senior" side and a "development" side in action. The quotation marks are in action as the senior side had 4 teenagers in it and the development side had a much loved senior citizen taking to the field once again. The names are not in important, Fleckney had two games to play. The roving reporter was at one, and the roving reporter was at the other - does this make sense? No, but when does the

Beautiful Great Bowden. Lovely ground, lovely people and the visit of a Hollywood superstar. Confused ? You soon won't be. Fleckney bowled first and Captain Scooter broke things open quickly taking the first 3 wickets. He may have got another one if the keeper had remembered to appeal, he may have had another if the keeper had taken the ball towards the bails on one stumping chance but let's have this recorded, the keeper was otherwise magnificent. He threw himself around in