With Kirk Brae the opposition, on a sunny day at East Drive fresh from his role as organiser of the successful beach cricket tournament last weekend Howard Coates swapped his Presidential cap for the Captain's hat and he won the toss and judged it best to field on what looked a great batting pitch and would be all day.

Largo opened the bowling with Bentley and King but the opposition showed how good the wicket was with Zeeshan and Gupta making use of the short boundary and good conditions to move consistently at 5-6 an over right up to the 20 over drinks break with Largo fielding well but little opportunities coming their way.

With his score on 65 in the 24th over the conditions got to Zeeshan and he had to retire hurt. This brought Rasheed to the crease and when Jess removed him for 14 there was hope from captain Coates's team that the tide could be turning in the game towards the Largo side. However Gupta would continue on to reach his 100 finishing on 118 before being removed by Bentley and with the middle order chipping in at the end the visitors made a formidable 254 off there 40 overs. This was however a good effort all around in the field by the Largo side with special mention to Dan Wood who fielded tirelessly and with great skill in the field to help save countless runs throughout the 40 overs.

Hoping the batting will be as plain sailing as the visitors found it, Captain Coates opened the batting with himself and Frankland however it would be a short stay for Coates departing for 1. This brought the high scoring King to the crease and with Frankland also scoring well at the other end Largo's hopes of a win were still there. This was until the introduction of Tahir and H.Raja to the attack with both bowling tightly and the killer blow being the later removing King clean bowled for 24.

With this the hopes of victory for the home side had faded and by the time Frankland was removed in the 31st over for 71 the Largo side were mainly playing for batting points only. The Largo innings finished on a commendable 189-5 with Brown (43) and Bentley (28) including a rare six taking the home side to maximum batting points, with the score just unfortunately out of the reach of the home side on the day.