Canterbury were victorious in their first Cockspur Cup Knockout fixture against The Mote C.C. on Sunday. This is a National ECB competition and although initially regionalised it commulates in a National Final at Lords, the home of cricket. The Mote C.C. won the toss and elected to bat and reached 160 for 7 in their allotted 45 overs. The pick of the bowlers for Canterbury were Dale Clarkson in his first season with the Club with excellent figures of 9-1-18-1. He was ably supported by the other bowlers and in particular Chris Jay who bowled his 6 overs for just 11 runs. In reply, most of the batsmen contributed to the score of 163 for 6, Paul Steer (29 not out) and skipper Mike Burnett (25 not out) seeing the side home with 3.2 overs to spare. For full details of the scorecard please see more