Chesterfords visited Dunmow on a beautiful sunny afternoon looking to put behind them the disappointing defeat at Hockerill the week before. Chesterfords won the toss on a hard flat batting wicket and decided to make the most of the favourable conditions by asking Dunmow to take the field.

Chesterfords soon found themselves on the back foot thanks to some aggressive fast bowling from Gilbert and Gibson who wreaked havoc on Chesterfords top 3 batsmen dismissing them by the 8^th over for the addition of only 28 runs to the score. Wazz Mughal came to the crease and under intense pressure managed to stave the opening onslaught he faced and settled into his usual free scoring rhythm. With a fast outfield Mughal played some clever intelligent shots mixing between delicately working the ball through the gaps and brutally despatching the ball over the boundary. Steven Squares joined Mughal at the crease with a gritty determined batting performance. Squares moved the ball around the pitch taking advantage of the gaps and the fast outfield as much as he could. Dunmow were becoming increasingly frustrated with Squares as he raced to his first ever league 50 with a beautifully timed cover drive. Mughal carried on in the same vain but was finally stopped in his tracks by Anu Weerasing for 49. James Pullen continued where Mughal left off and with Squares they started to build a very respectable score with determination and flamboyance. Some of the stroke play from Pullen was exceptional. Pullen eventually went for 34 after miss timing a pull shot that was caught easily. With wickets tumbling at the other end Squares took one risk too many and was caught deep in the boundary off of the bowling of Gilbert. Chesterfords tail end struggled with the reintroduction of Gilbert, 2 for 32 and Gibson, 1 for 28 and were finally bowled out in the 42^nd over for 207.

With a good target to bowl at, Chesterfords opened with the now familiar opening combination of Mughal and Tom Thake. Both bowlers bowled quickly and accurately with the batsmen playing and missing on numerous occasions they were unlucky not to get more purchase from their efforts. With Dunmow up with the run rate and with plenty of wickets in hand, Tom Thake finally made the important breakthrough with Watson taking a good catch behind the stumps. Pullen joined the bowling attack, and bowled with intelligence to pick up 2 wickets for 31 runs from his 10 overs, and Thake picked up another wicket by virtue of a good catch from Mughal at point. Thake finished with figures of 2 for 28 from his 10 overs. The turning point in the game came with the long awaited return of James Lipscombe to the cricket field. Lipscombe who had been unavailable for long periods of the season took a wicket with his first ball, and from his 7 overs managed to return figures of 3 for 31 as Chesterfords started to get into a winning position. Squares and Paul Phillips offered the slower bowling option, and further excellent catches by Thake and Mughal allowed Squares finish with figures of 2 for 15 and Phillips 1 for 19. Into the final few overs, the game was on a knife edge, Chesterfords needing 1 wicket and Dunmow needing 20 runs. Fortune favoured the brave and Lipscombe brought his strike bowler Mughal back into the attack where he destroyed up the stumps of Dunmow’s 11^th batsman Gibson returning figures of 1 for 42 from 10 overs allowing Chesterfords to win by 19 runs and return to being top of the 1017fm division 2.