In bright and warm conditions, visitors Old Buckingham won the toss and elected to bat first on a good hard green pitch. The inform George Bridges made an explosive start with the ball for North Elmham as he took three early wickets teaming up with John Livings twice to have both of the old Buckingham openers caught behind and then he bowled Tucket to reduce Old Buckingham to 36-3 after 14 overs. When change bowler Sinclair had Lund caught at first slip by P.Hunt the Old Buckingham innings was looking in need of repair. The ever young Perry (35) found much needed support in the form of Pape (26) as they tried to break the shackles of some very tight bowling from Webb, Sinclair and Hall. After 35 overs the score had progressed slowly onto 90-3 before Hall had Pape caught by John Livings for his third catch of the day. The return of Bridges into the attack soon saw