Our final game of the season against the Racing Club saw us batting first. Our openers McNamara (62) and de Haldevang (120 not out off 135 balls) continued in top form as they put on 144 for the opening stand. The latter impressed with shots all around the wicket. A further 44 from Abidi enabled us to reach 275–4 after 50 overs. Our opening bowlers, Rutt (two wickets) and Richard Barker (three), bowled with top pace and control and when Hennock took the sixtth wicket we were right on top. Racing Club’s seventh-wicket partnership then batted aggressively so that only about five an over was required from the last twenty overs. The partnership was broken with a ‘caught behind’ by McNamara off the bowling of Abidi (three wickets). Shamsherry (one wicket) was putting on pressure from the other end with tight bowling, and the Racing Club were eventually bowled out seventy runs short. Field Club colours for this season go to Pulkit Shamsherry, Osman Malik, and Lee Zhao. With many long-serving Trinity cricketers leaving this year we hope to have a good fresher’s intake next year, when Jack Barlow will skipper the side.
By Tom Eccles (2006) The Trinity Croquet teams continued their run of success in recent years, with the first team losing narrowly in the final of Cuppers, and the second team reaching the quarter-finals. Three players from the team also represented Cambridge in the Varsity Match. The first team set out hoping to improve on last year’s semi-final defeat, with returning players Douglas Buisson, Peter Ford, and captain Tom Eccles being joined by the new talent of Matthew Ridley. We had some nervy matches in the first few rounds, coming up against some exceptional hitters of the ball, but in the end our experience prevailed. The semi-final looked to be going badly after the strong pairing of Buisson and Ford lost by a hoop on a Selwyn pitch that featured a rather tricky hill, but in the other game an early break followed by solid defensive work clinched our place in the final for the third time in four years. The final on Trinity Old Field was against a strong Emmanuel team that had swept through its half of the draw. In the doubles games, which were played simultaneously, the two pairs got off to contrasting starts. The first pair of Buisson and Ford struggled to gain the initiative, and fell 8–0 behind, while Eccles and Ridley gained a 10–1 lead with a 6 hoop break from Eccles. However,
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