Skipper Chris Weller lost the toss and Bowral was sent into bat on a juicy wicket from the recent rain.

After losing an early wicket, runs were hard to come by early on.

The conditions were conducive to swing and cut off the pitch.

Bowral worked their way to a respectable 3/60 at drinks with Dave Spies the mainstay.

A fourth wicket partnership of 65 between Spies and Angus Lowden steered the game back in Bowral’s favour.

Unfortunately, when Lowden was dismissed, Bowral lost their remaining 6 wickets for only 17 runs.

The total of 136 was about 50 runs short of expectations.

Dave Spies was ninth man out for a very patient 84 in difficult conditions.

Bowral took to the field knowing they would have to bowl Mittagong out in order to take the points.

Murray Burgoyne exploited the conditions well with some lethal swing and cut.

However Burgoyne unfortunately came up empty handed.

Meanwhile at the other end, Zac de Hosson continued his terrorisation of the Mittagong batting line up.

De Hosson has yet another probing spell of fast bowling.

Wickets fell regularly as Mittagong went on the attack.

However Bowral put down some chances at inopportune times.

When the last of the recognised batsmen fell with the score on 131, Bowral was in with a chance.

Unfortunately for Bowral, the Mittagong tail was able to complete the chase 8 wickets down.

Zac finished with his second 6-wicket haul against Mittagong this season.

Meanwhile two other bowlers each took one wicket. 

Bowral 136 (D. Spies 84, A. Lowden 27; J. Edwards 5/11) def by Mittagong 8/137 (A. Debs 41; Z. de Hosson 6/31) 

- Chris Weller, Bowral Cricket Club