At last the weather warmed up from the artic type weather that had graced the early part of the week and allowed the first friendly to be played in relative comfort. St Lawrence won the toss and chose to bat first on what appeared to be a typical low, slow early season pitch. 
 
Ryan Minter had the honour of opening the 2010 bowling campaign and started very well, keeping the ball up to the bat and bowling a very consistent off stump line. However the batsmen had also read the wicket the same way and were keen to get forward and punish anything slightly over-pitched and with the small straight boundaries at Highland Court, got full value for their shots. At the other end, a Club and first team debut was given to Ben Clarke who has impressed in the pre season nets with his accurate medium pace. Again he kept the ball well up and also suffered when over-pitching, although he did get reward when he bowled Dan Stickels with a good yorker. 
 
After a few overs of seam from Canterbury, Stuart Drakely was bought into the attack and bowled a very tidy split spell of 9 overs for 34 runs to slow the scoring down. Both him and Ben Cooper bowled very well and certainly showed no signs of early season rustiness. However the fielding was an area that could be massively improved as too many runs were gifted both with missed chances and just general poor ground fielding. It was particularly noticeable at the end of the innings when St Lawrence posted a good score of 232 for 5, which was probably 30 too many given the way the slow bowlers managed to slow the scoring down in the middle of the innings. However one very positive note was the debut of wicketkeeper Josh Staunton who at only 14 years old showed that he really has was it takes to perform at this level.
 
Missing several top order players and awaiting the arrival of the overseas player, Canterbury went with a makeshift opening pair and despite the early loss of Simon Smith, Stuart Drakely took his opportunity and made a good 50 against a tidy St Lawrence attack. Paul Steer proved that his injury last year is behind him and put together a useful partnership with Drakely that threatened to take the game from the hosts. Unfortunately his loss curtailed the chase, and although Ed Govier, another youngster brought up through the Canterbury Academy, marked his first team debut by getting off the mark with a six! Unfortunately he perished trying to hit over the top once too often. From there on the chase looked unlikely and the batters opted for some time in the middle during the closing overs finishing on 197 for 7.