Southgate 2nd XI won on Saturday 13th June, their first home win in competitive league cricket since August 2019.

An impressive win by Southgate at The Walker Ground in front of a fair sprinkling of spectators.

An unfortunate batting collapse at South Hampstead, played out to a backdrop of a considerable amount of noise from the home team, led by their captain. The umpires were forced to step in at one stage, but it made little difference.

On a surprisingly pleasant spring day at the Walker Ground, Michael Stevens, with a typical, all-round performance, steered his team to a comfortable eight wicket win to secure ten precious points.

Ricky Gunn has just completed an amazing 50 years at Southgate CC.

On a wicket where the previous league game had to be abandoned due to its dangerous state, Southgate won the toss, wisely decided to bat, but with some trepidation.

Southgate scraped home on Saturday in a close game of ice-age cricket, and they moved to within one point of league leaders, South Hampstead. (One point having been deducted for a minor offence regarding lack of white line painting some weeks ago!)

Kenton is a curious cricket ground; sometimes the short boundaries mean that defending 6 an over feels impossible, sometimes the life and variation in the pitch mean that wickets tumble while runs are very hard to come by. On Saturday the 2nd XI game swung back and forth between the two, producing a match with distinct ebb and flow.

Southgate registered their fourth win in their last five completed Middlesex League matches with a comfortable victory over Uxbridge. The victory margin of 119 runs has only been exceeded by the Club in the last 20 years on two other occasions at first eleven level ; against Eastcote in 2016 and against, coincidentally, Uxbridge, in 2007.

There were times on Saturday when the umpire at the pavilion end saw things just a little earlier than the rest of us.