Action Replay

Most of the 2011 Tour Party enjoyed another game against a Barbados team at this year's English Schools Cricket Association Festival held at King's College, Taunton last week. The Barbados lads, managed by Roland Butcher, a native of Barbados who played County Cricket in England for Middlesex, were in the UK to play in the ESCA Festival and other games in Cornwall, Reading and London. The Lancs lads posted 209-9 in their 45 overs innings, with Captain James Seward top scoring on 42, and then bowled out the Bajan team for 157, with Jake Smith bagging 5 wickets for 18, to run out comfortable winners by 52 runs. To be fair, the rather cool and damp weather was always likely to favour the Lancastrians and the Barbados lads would not doubt have preferred the hot sunshine of their home island but they seemed to be enjoying the challenge of playing in English conditions.