St Annes made the trip to Darwen without many regular players. Nick Mckenzie and Stuart Walters made their debut for St Annes and Simon Owen made a rare appearance as well. Without so many regular players missing this was always going to be a difficult game. Stand in captain Neil 'the cat' 'bradders' Bradley won the toss and elected to field. Darwen made173 in their 50 overs. This was a total St. Annes may have been happy with but a number of dropped catches cost the team the chance of reducing Darwen to a lower total. On a difficult pitch with many batters missing 173 was always going to be a difficult score to chase. Gareth Costin opening the batting made 38 and Rick Thomas scored 44 lower down the order. In a valiant attempt St Annes made 143 for 9, Stuart Walters and Andy Taylor held on for the losing draw.