Sir Harold and The Inspector got Green off to a fine start in the final of the Over 40s indoor competition against Coggeshall at Chelmsford. With the retirement of Clouseau the rate slowed with Sir Harold who was somewhat starved of the strike also retiring on 25. Gibbo perished first ball and some lusty blows from Fat Cas enabled him to become the 3rd player to retire. The Pig and Bones upped the tempo with some sensible running to make the score a respectable if not commanding score of 116 for 3.
The Coggeshall openers worked the ball to the side walls to great effect. The introduction of Gavin Castle induced a false stroke but the simplest of chances was spilled. Sadly this was not the last of the fielding blemishes. Keith Mitchell's bowling tightened things and a breakthrough was made in somewhat fortuitous manner with the ball rebounding from Gibbo's pads back onto the stumps for a stumping. Green were back in the game at this point but another simple dropped catch followed by four missed run out chances saw the game slip away as a sense of panic seemed to set in. A late gamble to use Bones for the penultimate over did not come off and Coggeshall fittingly won with an overthrow with a couple of balls and one wicket in hand.
Andy Flower presented the trophy to the worthy winners.