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More new faces this week with Conrad "Bradley" Quarmby and Mork "Bez" Partridge stepping in for Red Eyed Rick and Wilkie who'd decided not to play this week.

Stonewall won the toss and had no hesitation in sticking Yates in to bat on the Blubberhouses mud flats which slightly resembled a cricket square.

The now regular opening attack of Sherman and King of Swing got the game underway and it didn't take long for the action to start, Best mis-judged the quicker ball from Sherman and skied one up to backward square. Memories of Raskelf away flashed through Stonewalls eyes when he spotted Bradley under the ball, would it be a trip to Otley casualty or could the Ginger Genius get the homeside off to a flyer and would Jim Branning ever return to Albert Square? A relieved Stonewall watched a relieved Bradley clamp onto the ball and Yates were none for one.

The visitors looked like they would have more chance scoring down Manningham Lane with a fifty pound note  than with the bat when wicket number two fell, Hebb juggled one up down the legside and managed to clasp onto the rebound and Sherman had two.

Finally after eight overs Yates got the scoring underway and the number two and four batsmen looked like they were there to stay, quickly shunting the score onto thirty six before Sherman came up trumps again, skittling the overseas star for fifteen.

Townsend was next to go as Swing picked up his first of the season and it was forty one for four and Blubbs were on top.

Stonewall brought himself into the attack and the team expected, unfortunately Stonewall had ripped his mate Sherman off with another Tesco insurance policy which was obviously causing him sleepless nights and the weary captain was struggling.

Seventy two runs on the board and Stonewall finally got some sympathy when Townsend was triggered leg before to a ball which was going over the top of a third set of stumps.

Wilson and Turnball steadied the rocky ship for the visitors putting on fifty three and Stonewall felt the bowling point slipping through his fingers, Splinter put some hope back in the attack when Turnball holed out for eighty.

Sadly it wasn't to be, Splinter picked up the consolation wicket of Wilson with the final ball of the innings when the "slider" had him trapped in form of the sticks and Blubbs were looking at one fifty eight for victory.

After the lovers lunch it was Stonewall who accompanied Angry to the crease to get the run chase underway with Potter dropping down to three. Stonewall wasn't going to be the saviour this week when a leave worthy of Mike Gatting saw the bewildered leader lose his off stump without offering a stroke and Blubbs were twenty five for one.

Angry managed double figures for the first time this year and showed some signs of last years form, briefly that is until a wild flash outside off stump saw the ball chopped back onto the stumps and both openers had gone with sixty two on the board.

Bez was the new man at the crease and no-one was sure what to expect after a two year break from the game, its a good job runs weren't expected after a shaky eight a miss-timed pull saw him depart the field and Stonewall was starting to worry.

The collapse continued five runs later when Splinter sliced a simple catch up and Blubbs were crumbling for the second week running.

Tichie joined Potter and the "father/son-in-law" partnership added only nine runs before Potter became the fifth wicket to fall when he was caught for thirty nine.

Thack couldn't hold off the Yates onslaught one sixteen for five was soon one nineteen for six, Stonewalls head dropped for he knew the order had now got down to Sherman, the same Sherman who had so badly let him down the week prior.

The ground fell silent as Thack trudged off but wait, distant echoes of Bonnie Tyler could be heard in the distance as the one man army Sherman strode out to the frontline.

The brothers Grimm kept the score ticking away at two an over before Sherman realised they actually needed three an over, that was it Sherman opened up the bomb doors and began tearing the Yates bowlers apart smashing a seasons best of thirty five backed up by Tichie the points were secured with still seven overs remaining.

Three out of three meant Blubbs headed the division two table by two points but how long can this keep up?

Points Awarded Blubberhouses:5 Burnt Yates:1

Fielding Points: Hebb, Bradley

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