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.