Margins of Victory and defeat are veiled metrics. Is a ten wicket defeat worse than a 150 run defeat?
What is clear that the RNVR chasing a declared innings of 344 fell short at South Nutfield CC yesterday.
Matching, in some odd way, the fact that the oldest recorded playing of this fixture is 1976, the visitors were dismissed for 76.
This beats by some clear margin a defeat at Reigate Pilgrims (a two day game) in 2017 and Barcombe in 1959, and indeed all really one sided games in all the club's glorious 75 season history.
Perhaps it is of no great surprise that South Nutfield had a really lovely afternoon and the game was played in great, if bewildered, good spirit.