Paddy Chapman has left with Miranda, so you have an amateur commentator. Apologies for the errors in the title: I don't know how to correct them!

Annabel, having lost to Nina, now needs to beat Sue twice to get the second play-off place in the main knockout (effectivelly they are playing a best of three with Sue, who had the bye, one up).

The match is being played on lawn 1 again, with a small crowd. A brief shower has passed over and a television crew have finished filming (for Notts TV, a commercial channel which plans to broadcast their footage at 5.30 and 6pm this evening).

Preliminaries over, Annabel played first with Black. Sue replied with a peg high tice(?) on the West Boundary with Yellow.

Turn 3: Annabel joined up.

Turn 4: Sue missed into second corner.

Turn 5: Annabel played lack, hit Blue gently and played a good length take-off to red in the second corner. The take-off to Yellow was 5 yards short, but stayed on the lawn. She hit Yellow, but on the wrong side, leaving it on the yard-line about 4 yards south of the peg. An excellent roll-up leaves her a 2 foot hoop, after which she rushed Yellow to the boundary South of hoop 4. Still a lot of work to do.

Turn 5 (cont): Yellow was croqueted to a yard south of hoop 3, but Blue was rushed into the back of hoop 3. She rolled across to hoop 2, but ended 8 yards from red, which she center-balled.
She now has a stop shot appoach, which leaves a 2 uard hoop, which is run cleanly. She hits the 5 yarder at partner, takes off to Red and rushes it to south of hoop 4, which should give a 3-ball break.

Turn 5 (cont): Annabel, still playing Black, was hampered after hoop 3, so joined partner in 2nd corner.

Turn 6: Sue shoots with Red at hoop 4 to yellow south of hoop . and misses.

Turn 7: Annabel has a rush with Black on Blue to Red on the North Boundary. She rushes Red to Yellow and sends it to hoop 5, getting a 1yd rush to hoop 4. She has her 3-ball break back.

Turn 7 (cont): Its now a 4-ball break at hoop 6.

Turn 7 (cont): Annabel ends on 4-Back with a diagonal spread. She turned down the possibility of adjusting Red at the peg, leaving it about a yard away, She laid up level with hoop 4 on the East boundary with a 2 - 3 foot rush.

Turn 8: Sue lifts the peg ball (Red) and takes the long lift from north or hoop 3: probably a double with a gap between. Missed through the middle to just north of corner 4.

Turn 9: Annabel mishit her rush, reaching the peg.. She laid up by hoop 2, with Yellow by hoop 1 and Red still in corner 4.

Turn 10: Sue shoots with the hoop 1 ball at partner in corner 4, missing to the north of it.

Turn 11: Annabal hits partner, takes off to the balls near corner 4, leaving partner at hoop 2, doesn't get a cannon. Her rush to hoop 1 goes off the south boundary South of Rover. Her roll-up is short, so she retreats back to partner, leaving the same position she started with!

Turn 12: Sue takes the same shot, at partner in corner 4 ... with the same result.

Turn 13: Blue decided to rush Black to hoop 1, rather than leave it at hoop 2. She made hoop 1 off partner, rushed it to between hoops 3 and 4 and finally took off to the balls in corner 4. She rushed to 5 yards SW of hoop 2, rolled up to a yard away and her ball settled in a slight depression, which I ruled was not special damage. She ran the hoop, tried to get partner to 4-back, but was left with a 3-yard backward take-off to leave a 2 yard hoop., which she runs by a foot. She decides to hit the escape ball rather than partner, which she leaves at 4-back rather than send it to hoop 5, playing a good roll to hoops 4 and 5.

Turn 13: After hoop 4, Annabel sent Red to NE of hoop 6, but doesn't get a rush out of hoop 5. She rolls to 1-back and partner, which is still 3 yards south of 4-back.
(Correction to previous comment: the rush to hoop 2 ended SE not SW of the hoop.)

Turn 13 :(cont): She doesn't rush black into peeling position, but sends it to the side of 4-back when going to the ball at 6. After 6, she rushes across and unluckily cannons into partner, moving it away from the hoop. Time to abandon.

The gannets have returned to swell the crowd for lunch: fish pie.

Turn 13 (cont): Her roll from 1-back to 2-back and 3-back is short, but she hits partner to leave a 4 yard backwards take-off, which hilled to the East of the hoop. She bounces off it, leaving Sue a dream start.

Turn 14: Sue lifts her ball between hoops 5 and 3-back instead of the one SW of hoop 3, and rushes black too close to blue to get it up to hoop 2. Sue runs her first hoop in the play-off and gets a good rush to hoop 2, leaving her hoop one pioneer by the NW of the peg. She runs hoop 2 leaving a rush back to it, so should have a break.

The table next to me has the trophy and medals, which were displayed for the television crew, together with small bottles of red, white and purple nail varnish and one of a lacquer (?) top coat. The English players have been adorning their nails with the George Cross.

Turn 14 (cont): The break came to grief at hoop 6, when black was rushed close behind the hoop. She tried to Irish peel to get position, but was just short. She played back to the South boundary.

Turn 15: The clips are Blue on 2-back, Black on 4-Back, Yellow on 6 and Red still on 1. Annabel hit in with Black and laid up in corner 2, leaving red at hoop 1 and Yellow south of 4-back. Blue has the rush.

Turn 16: Red shoots at Yellow and hits centre ball. Sue plays a good length take-off to the balls near corner 2 and gets a good rush to 4 yards south of hoop 1. A heavy shower starts and Sue retreats to put her waterproofs on.

I've retreated to the pavilion as rain is coming onto my laptop when seated on the veranda. Sue ran hoop 1 and 2, and played a big roll afterwaards to get a rush on black towards hoop 3, but caught it on the wrong side. She still has Yellow on the yard line East of hoop 3 and rolls up from it, leaving a 2-yard hoop, which she runs. The break continues ...

Turn 16 (cont): ... and eventually reaches 4-back with a diagonal spread. The shower passed some time ago, but more may be on the way. The three ladies next to me on the bench have a blanket over their knees: I have the laptop for warmth!

Turn 17: Annabel has enough backswing to shoot at Sue's balls on the boundary by hoop 4 and hits with Blue, her 2-back ball. She runs 2-back to within a foot of the boundary, but missed the return roquet, trying to rush it to Yellow by the peg.

Turn 18: Sue joins up on the boundary by hoop 4.

Turn 19 Annabel hits with Blue and gets to Rover, leaving an old standard leave.

Turn 20: Sue shoots at partner from the South boundary, narrowly missing.

Turn 21: Annabel plays Black, her 4-Back ball, and gets a rush to the hoop. She also makes penult and rover, but with partner in corner 4 there are no peeling opportunities. She again leaves an OSL, this time with Yellow nearer the West boundary.

Turn 22: Sue lifts Yellow and misses the short lift.

Turn 23: Annabel finishes to win 26-14, but will have to do it all again.