The lesson from the second team this week will be a practical, so everyone outside for a lesson in spin bowling.

Depending on technique, a spin bowler uses either predominant wrist or finger motion to impart spin to the ball around a horizontal axis that is at an oblique angle to the length of the pitch. This sort of spin means it is also possible for the Magnus effect to cause the ball to deviate sideways through the air, before it bounces. Such deviation is called drift. The combination of drift and spin can make the ball's trajectory complex, with a change of direction at the bounce. This variety of trajectories achievable by a spin bowler can bewilder batsmen.

Wrist spin - A right-handed wrist spinner is known as a leg spinner and his or her mode of bowling is known as leg break. A leg break will move from right to left from the bowler's point of view, or from the leg-side to the off-side for a right-handed batsman. Shane Warne of Australia and is one of the most successful bowlers in Test cricket history.

Finger spin - Finger spinners make use of their fingers to rotate the ball. A right-arm finger spinner is known as an off-spinner and their mode of bowling is known as off break. Graeme Swann is currently one of the best off spin bowlers in the world. The Nottinghamshire ace has been clocked at putting 2,000 revolutions per minute on his off-breaks — more than any of his current England contemporaries. He said: "My philosophy is that if you are going to do anything, you must do the best you can — so if that's spin bowling, it means spin it as hard as possible.

Both leg and off spinners have deliveries that can go the other way, the googly or the doosra, these are used to bamboozle the batsman and this bring us nicely back to hockey. The men’s 2s were doing very well against Stains at home playing some excellent hockey and just waiting for the ball to be put in the net.

Stains made a break and the one on one was smothered at the top of the D by Rob, the ball ran away from danger towards the baseline, somehow the opposition striker managed to recompose himself and send a leg spinner towards the goal from an impossible angle, this should have spun away from goal but no it was a clever disguised doosra, the covering defenders didn’t pick it out of the hand and we went a goal down.

Excellent composure from Paul “Moral Compass” Harris from the flick spot saw us draw back level and that’s how it stayed

Motm – Rob Merriman (Can't remember why but I’m sure it had something to do with kicking the ball)

Dotd – Ben Cheesman (Can't remember why but I’m sure it had something to do with kicking the ball)