On the glorious sunny afternoon of Sunday 19 August 2012 the Province welcomed the Metropolitan Grand Lodge to Horton House Cricket Club for this annual match. The vistors were keen to wrestle back the Henderson Cup having surrendered it for the first time in the 2011 fixture.
WBro Mike Caseman-Jones, last year's victorious captain, was now team manager. Jeremy Thomas, team Captain, won the toss and elected to bat. Just prior to the start the Province lent the son of one of our players, youngster James Dean, to the visitors. This proved to be costly as the young man held two catches to send Province batsmen back to the pavilion.
The Province amassed a total of 197 off their 30 overs - with contributions of over 30 runs from Colin Sibley, Paul Ruff and Steve Jarvis. Good hearted father and son discussion carried on after the game with James Dean failing to get the wicket he really wanted - that of his father Martin Dean. Our Captain, Jeremy Thomas, felt he was harshly given out LBW by his father.
The good performance of the Province continued when they went out to field. With excellent bowling from all the bowlers the visitors lost early wickets and struggled to keep up with the run rate. They eventually fell short on 96 all out with James Dean being out on the last ball of the match. He was second highest score for the opposition with 13.
The Province won by 101 runs and James Dean was 'Man of the Match.' The winning Captain was presented with the Henderson Cup by the PGM, RW Bro Max Bayes.
In 2013 the Province travels to the Rickmansworth home of the Masonic School for Girls to hopefully cement a hatrick of victories and keep their hands on the trophy.