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Pads are still going well Dad. Today we notched up 266 for 5 of which I scored 114 and got bowled on the last ball of the innings trying to hit a six for a grandstand finish. Still, we won by about 110 runs.

114! That's my highest score ever and a maiden century to add to the 72 (n.o), 39,34,32 (n.o), 29 and 7 (n.o) that I have scored so far this year. Although I also took a catch, Stevie Lewis the skipper took five catches in the outfield! Jim scored 74 in about half the time I scored my first fifty runs! That lad's destined for great things. Keep an eye on him batting for Yorkshire this summer. Jimmy Morgan. He is likely to make his first team debut at some time this season although he is still only a colt at 14. In the six matches I've played with him this year he has hit about 5 centuries! I think he hit one or two while you were here Dad. It's taken me forty years to do what he does most weekends. In fact the regulars offered to have a whip round today because they said they don't often see someone make a century on days when Jim doesn't! He'll be going back to take up his duties in the UK soon...but don't forget you saw him first on the Columbus oval at Alfaz. Over to you, Mr Coleman...or was it David Vine?? Family joke, all you readers in the ether.