Results round-up
The npower Village Cup quarter-finals were taking place as TWC went to press and none of the remaining eight teams had been to a Lord’s final before. Folkton & Flixton, near Scarborough, were the most northern of the remaining sides and were up against West Yorkshire side Streethouse. To the west Great Eccleston were carrying the hopes of Lancastrians while Stockton were representing the Midlands. Propping up the south were Dinton in Buckinghamshire and Glynde & Beddingham in East Sussex. But in the summer when the Ashes came to Cardiff what price a Welsh winner? Two teams from Pembrokeshire, Cresselly and Miskin Manor, faced each other in the quarter-finals, so there will be at least one Welsh semi-finalist with chance of reaching Lord’s on September 14.

Water hazard
Eynsford did not make it out of their Kent group this year but their 2009 campaign will be long remembered thanks to a spectator’s fielding against Limpsfield Chart in their regional semi-final. Eynsford’s ground is bordered on one side by the small River Darent, where kids often fetch the ball from its shallow depths. Eynsford’s Paul Smythe takes up the story: “One of our regular spectators attempted to stop a ball that was rolling slowly but surely for the river. As he collected it he tripped on a stone and fell in slow motion into the river. But he appeared to hover horizontally above the water and in that time managed to throw the ball back before entering with a mighty splash. All the players and spectators collapsed laughing as our nearest fielder helped him from the water whereupon he sat down and watched the rest of the game. It will forever be known as the Del Boy moment.”