Welsh Dragons beat Metro by 8 wickets

Luckily the weather did not play a major part in this year's Cup Final apart from a few small interuptions. Dragons won the toss and put Metro in to bat. Metro made a steady start but began to lose wickets when trying to up the run rate in the second half of the innings. With 9 wickets down, they made 152 from 34 overs. Andy McKeating 30, Adam Benjamin 20, Bryn Reynolds 16. Bryn and Adam putting on over 50 for the second wicket.

Welsh Dragons made a solid start with Dave Wood and Neil Prior, followed by Mike Fergusson and reached the target fairly comfortably with a number of overs to spare.

The ScoreCard should be online soon.

Tomorrow sees the Knock Out Cup Final played at Lord's with Welsh Dragons reaching the Final for the first time, against Metro who are in their 5th consecutive Cup Final.

It's always an enjoyable and memorable experience to play our Cup Final at Lord's. And over the years there have been some exciting and close Blind Cricket Cup Finals, and most Blind Cricket Teams have been lucky enough to experience playing at Lord's at least once since the first Lord's Final in 1993.

The first ever Blind Cricket Cup Final was played in 1979.

Unfortunately the forecast for tomorrow is for showers, apart from Dave Wood, who will probably go straight to the bar after the match. If the game isn't affected by rain, I would expect it to be a high scoring match. Both teams have top quality batsman and both teams have about half a dozen players who've represented England Blind Cricket on either the India or Australia Tour. A big blow for Metro is that Heindrich Swanepoel will not be playing who consistently keeps runs down and takes wickets. Welsh Dragons have strength in depth and I would expect Mike Fergusson to figure as one of their top scorers. However, Metro have some key run scorers and I would expect Adam Benjamin to get big runs if Metro are going to be effective. Tim Guttridge could also get Metro off to a flying start with his free scoring stroke play.

So I suppose you want me to put my money where my mouth is then ? Well, I might actually do this tomorrow with a few side bets or spread bets. The England Coach has offered me double or quits on the curry he owes me for bowling him out in Australia.

I'll go for a Welsh Dragons win, but not easily and the side batting second will have a big advantage and should win particularly if the side batting first rails to reach 150 from their 35 overs.

For batting first, the spread will be something like Welsh Dragons 156 - 165, and Metro 141 - 150.

And if the game is severely rain affected, well anything could happen.

Metro recently lost their first ever League match in 5 years. They were beaten by 5 wickets by Birmingham. Both teams finish first and second in the League respectively with a 5 point gap separating them. Welsh Dragons' maximum points win against London Sports sees them likely to finish third if they take at least 5 points from their remaining game against Worcester.

Birmingham have one game left to take just 1 point to finish in 2nd above White Rose. But Welsh Dragons, although currently 2nd from bottom, could overtake a cluster of mid table clubs in their final 2 games.

White Rose beat Worcester by 77 runs

Metro beat Leeds and District by 8 wickets

Leeds and District beat London Sports by 4 wickets

Leeds and District Draw with Welsh Dragons

Welsh Dragons V Birmingham, not know, rumoured to be a Draw

Metro beat White Rose by 6 wickets reaching 90 / 4

Welsh Dragons beat Birmingham

Metro will play Welsh Dragons in the Cup Final at Lords on Saturday August 19th

Apologies for not updating this site for a while, so I'll quickly run through what's been happening. The League Table is up to date, and I'll put more details on the other pages in the next few days

This weekend sees the Semi Finals of the Knock out Cup: White Rose at home to Metro which is a repeat of last year's Cup Final at Lord's. Let's hope it doesn't rain all day this time and end up in a bowl-out at stumps. The other Semi Final sees Welsh Dragons at home to Birmingham Sports

Sun 25th June Leeds 20 pts beat Worcester 2 pts, by 8wkts

Sat June 24 Birmingham 19 pts beat Worcester by 107 runs

Sunday June 11 - Welsh Dragons 10 points Drew with White Rose 8 points

Sun June 4th White Rose 20 pts beat Birmingham by 8 wkts

White Rose Cancelled their game against Worcester

White Rose 0 points, Worcester 20 points

London Sports 38 all out

Birmingham 39 / 3

Birmingham won by 7 wickets (18 points), London Sports 1 point

Leeds and District 31 all out

White Rose 32 / 2

White Rose won by 8 wickets (19 points), Leeds & D 0 points

and after the match Andy Sellins, England Coach, was so proud of his team's performance, he nearly offered to buy a round of drinks.