Last year, Chesterfords had ventured to Italy and played Idle cricket club in Lodi. This year it was the turn of the men from Lodi to travel down to the rec for an all day game in the sun.

The visitors invited Chesterfords to bat after the toss, and Chesterfords openers got off to a great start. James Lipscombe was in good form as he clinically despatched the ball around on his way to 113 and he was ably supported by Luke Claydon (36), David Perring (37) and Nadeem Mughal (30). Chesterfords amassed 265 runs in the first innings, although the Lodi bowler Hasson returned bowling figures of 5 for 23 from 4 overs.

In reply, Lodi could not really get used to the variable bounce of the Chesterford wicket as Mark (2-30) and Shaun Stokley (3-17) produced some outstanding intelligent bowling limiting Lodi to 222 in their first innings with only Osbourne (66) and Larkam (40) troubling the scorers

As is traditional at a Chesterfords all day game, a rather sumptuous lunch was had courtesy of Mrs Lipscombe and Mrs Perring, so the second innings was curtailed to only 10 overs each. Chesterfords captain Wazz Mughal brutally took apart the Lodi bowling as he retired unbeaten on 52 in the 6^th over. Support came from Nadeem Mughal (16) and James Pullen (13) as Chesterfords put another 102 on the board.

Facing a mountain of runs to get, Lodi elected to get some batting practice in scoring only 51 runs in reply, probably because they were eager to get to the Plough for a well earned roast dinner.

A great day was had by all, with Chesterfords coming out on top, but international relations being the winner of the weekend.