[Neil Pickup]

Another hard-fought win today for my U11s, chasing down 107, but not before a few scares having got ourselves 37/4. A very assured 49 (I never tell kids scores... I kind of wish I had done) from one of our County players was enough to marshall us home. The big challenge right now is to go from the stage where we look like we should get runs to actually getting runs - we have lots of batsmen (as I've been saying for ages) who look like they could be excellent... but in games their mental process is all wrong so they don't score. Any tips?

In other news, our second XI won by 172 runs today having bowled out the opposition for eight...