SET FOR CRICKET SUCCESS

Quite apart from Findon's bid to make it four championships in a row, their 2nd XI have already sewn up their first division title to set down part one of a winning championship double achieved before only four times in 24 years '” by Findon themselves in 1989, 1996 and 1998 and Goring in 1986.

Goring themselves have a say in whether a fifth double comes about '” which would be the first under the new four-divisions-each format '” but on Saturday evening they were already celebrating the triumph of their 2nd XI winning Division 2.

Broadwater won Division 2 last season and not only have they finished third in Division 1 on their return to the top grade, and by rights since the only teams to beat them are the only two above them, Findon and Arundel. Their 2nd XI are safely runners-up to Goring and will be promoted with them.