This year, CPCC’s Short Croquet team came top of their block which meant they had to compete against Bath in the final.
This took place on Sunday 29th September, with the CPCC team (David Milford, Simon Dunk, Fran Ralli and Simon Munton) being the home team and Bath the away team. As the final took place in Bath, being host to them on their own lawns felt a little strange!
After the first round the score was 2 all, but by lunch CPCC were trailing by 3 games to 5. After the third round CPCC were trailing by 5 games to 7. To win outright, CPCC needed to win all 4 games of the last round, but only succeeded in winning 2 games meaning that Bath were the victors by 9 games to 7.
Interestingly, although CPCC lost the match, they did score more hoops than their opponents (158 to 154). Many thanks to David and Fran for stepping in at short notice.