Graveney skipper Paul Jeffels won the toss at Abinger Hammer and in overcast conditions elected to bat. After a solid knock in the previous game, Nick Goodburn opened the batting again, but in the absence of Rob Davies, had a new partner in Tim Eveleigh, given the chance to build an innings. Nick soon began to find his rhythm and hit a 3 good boundaries, before Big Tim was out caught for 2, departing the field to be told he should have "hit the ball hard" by his skipper. 

Howard Hamilton, also given a chance to play himself in up the order played and missed a few deliveries, but hit a couple of nice fours before he too perished, offering a soft caught and bowled off what would have surely been called a wide! Graveney were 28-2. In strode the Bear, surely super confident after his previous knock at Newdigate, and with Nick starting to find regular boundaries the scoring rate started to increase. 

With the score on 76 Nick then was unlucky to be bowled for 42 by one that ricocheted off his pad onto the stump when he looked well set for a big score. Pradeep came and went quickly, LBW without scoring, before Barry Gray joined Bear in the middle. Barry hit some good shots including a couple of swept sixes in making 34, during which time Bear took advantage of some buffet bowling to pass 50, thrashing some big sixes that threatened the crowd in the pavillion. Now in full flow, their partnership realised 113 as Bear raced to a chanceless ton, before surviving what appeared to be a clear stumping which Howard, umpiring at Square Leg, missed because he was taking a drag on a cigarette! Barry had departed to a sharp catch, and Bear eventually for 132, with Jez Skidmore then adding a solid 22, and Dave Moody 6 not out, including hitting his second ball for four courtesy of a reverse sweep, to the delight of the watching Graveney players, who had previously watched the Bear attempt the shot twice without success. 

Bear declared 10 minutes before tea to give Graveney the extra time to attempt to bowl out the opposition, during which time Dave Moody took great pleasure in telling our centurian that his, and not the Bear's, was the way to hit a reverse sweep!  

After tea, the Graveney opening bowlers produced a miserly spell, with Pradeep Jain and Dave Price both troubling the batsmen. Pradeep grabbed two early wickets, dismissing both openers, courtesy of a catch at point by Jez, and a superb delivery that took the top of off stump. He also took the top of Dave Moody's head withe a ball that took off down the leg side. Luckily Dave was OK having declared it only a glancing blow.  

Jay Vibert, sporting the new facial look he acquired in his last nets session, then joined the attack and himself took 2 wickets, his first in his very first over when he clean bowled the batsman, before Dave Price calmly effected a run out to leave the Hammer deep in touble at 32-4. Tim Eveleigh took a little tap (3-0-20-0) before Tim Bunn, opting to bowl slow stuff rather than his usual medium pace bowled a mean spell of his own causing the batsmen a few problems. Jez and the Bear took their equally tight turn, before Barry Gray (3-0-3-1) grabbed a good wicket. Pradeep (8-6-4-3), Jay (5-0-21-2) and Tim Bunn (6-2-5-1)were all brought back as the overs srtarted to disappear, but despite Pradeep picking up a third wicket, the 9th wicket pairing stood firm for the final few overs, including a last burst from Dave Price (6-2-6-0), to force a draw.  

Overall, Graveney were well worth a win, but at the end just could not force the last couple of wickets to secure the result they wanted. Man of the match went, unsurprisingly, to Bear for yet another ton, although all players will have felt they contributed towards the team effort in some way.