A lot of rain produced a slow but decent cricket wicket, which is only to be expected at the superb ground in Birdham. Having won the toss Michael Gould opted to bat, which looked like it could have been an error as the side collapsed to 121 for 8. Dominic Clapp continued his run of good form with a well crafted 51, but the middle order failed to deliver apart from Benn Challen's 16 and Samrat Sengupta's 27 in his final game for the game before he heads back to India.
The tail wagged though in the form of Luke Vinter (30*) and Josh Goldsmith (20) who put on 51 for the 9th wicket and saw the side progress to 172 all out.
The bowlers got into the home side's batting quickly as they tumbled to 34 for 7, Luke Vinter the main destroyer with 5 for 18 and Andy Lutwyche 2 for 29, but Worthing struggled to finish the innings off until Benn Challen took 2 for 15 and then on the final ball of the game Stirlands number 11 Tebb squirted one to Clapp at gully, but wandered out of his ground before the quick thinking Clapp threw down the stumps to win the game for the league leaders at the last gasp.
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