It was a beautiful day at Fettes and the U9B (Team Root) were raring to go, Captained for the day by Ensay.

Cargilfield batted first with Minty and Teddy leading the charge with a great 25 from 4 overs. Anastasia and Magnus continued with more excellent batting pushing the scoreboard up into the 40’s. Georgia and Archer were the 3^rd partnership showing great running between the wickets as well as some good hitting. Ezra and Eleora having seen how successful Georgia and Archers running was continued with a similar tactic. They were as quick as Flash between the stumps running great singles putting the Fettes fielders under a lot of pressure. Our final pairing was Serena and Ensay. This was the partnership of the day. They put Fettes bowlers and fielders under constant pressure for their 4 overs running good singles and hitting some fantastic boundaries bringing our total to over 130 in 20 overs.

After a quick turn around our bowlers opened up. We reversed the batting order so Ensay and Serena started our attack. They both bowled very nicely keeping Fettes to only a few runs. Ezra and Eleora continued with more accurate bowling, then Georgia and Archer with Anastasia and Magnus, who’s first over was excellent taking a well deserved wicket. Minty and Teddy came on before we started the bowling rota again. Teddy’s bowling was top draw; quick, accurate and very unfortunate not to take a wicket. We had kept Fettes to under 40 runs, including extras after 10 overs. It was going to be a tough afternoon for Fettes. Our bowling continued to be of a high standard, with the highlight from Serena’s over. She had bowled well when the Fettes player went for a big shot only for Ensay to make a difficult catch look easy. There was strong bowling from Magnus, Archer and especially Teddy, who was the standout bowler of the day.

Cargilfield won convincingly. Fettes were gracious hosts providing a lovely match tea and plenty of laughs and giggles from the teams when they sat with one another.

Player of the match – Ensay.