Redbourne Cricket Club January 17th 2007

The lights were off in the car park, a last ditch attempt possibly to stop any visitors in thier tracks, to disable them over the carp park boundary perhaps, or maybe the committe have yet to vote on who puts the light bulbs in. The answers to these questions we may never know.

A small clubhouse nestled in the centre of Redbourne Common, home to Redbourne Cricket Club and the sound of leather on willow echoing round the walls in the summer months. The winter however is very different, it stands alone and almost empty shrouded in darkness that seems to surround it all day long barley noticeable almost conspicuous by its almost apparent absence. This was the venue for the latest instalment of Rose & Crown Darts, a venue that has proved to be a stumbling block in the past.

It proved tonight that the only stumbling block would be the unlit car park as the Rose & Crown ran away with victory 6-2.
It was hardly a vintage performance by the visitors as they played well within themselves but with enough in hand to ease to a comfortable victory and extend a recent run of impressive performances going into next weeks encounter against the highly rated Inn On The Green.
After suffering defeat in the first match of the evening it was up to Neil "The Dude" Crosby and Carl Bolding to redress the balance and pave the way for the ever reliable pairing of stalwart Tony Scott and Tom Wilson to put put the visitors ahead. They duly obliged and were quickly followed by the impressive John Goode and Paul Mullins who swept the visitors into a 3-1 lead going into the singles.

Plagued by the cold whistling in through the doors the visitors seemed in a hurry to end this encounter as quickly as possible and when Tom Wilson stepped up to take on the first single in place of Neil Crosby it certainly looked like being an early night.
Tom strolled to the oche and almost nonchalantly and with such unerring accuracy powered the visitors into an unassailable 4-1 lead.
Neil Crosby sealed victory shortly afterwards before the Rose & Crown eventually run out 6-2 victors and putting behind them previous slip ups in the parishes.