Andy and Colin were in the Somerset team who last weekend won the Division 1 Inter-County Championship at Southwick. This was the first time Somerset had won in five years and broke a run of Nottinghamshire dominance.
Twelve counties were represented in the competition, with four to six players in each team. Every county played every other county and each round consisted a doubles game and two singles games. On day one we played six matches and won five of them, only losing narrowly to Essex. On day two we won our first four matches, setting up a final ‘winner-takes-all’ encounter with mighty Nottinghamshire, the best team on paper and losers of just one match themselves.
Colin and Andy played really well in the doubles, consistently clearing from distance and successfully jumping to take the win. Meanwhile, on the adjoining lawn, Rachel Gee (former ladies world champion) and her husband Will, a ferociously hard-hitting international-standard player, were playing David Goacher and Dom Aarvold respectively. Dom pulled off a fantastic win (7-4) against Will and so the trophy was ours.