Cheshire, made up of 6 Bowdon members, lost to Nottinghamshire 2-1 (Irwin/Winn) on Tuesday afternoon to finish second in the Inter-County Championships, played at Sussex (Southwick) and Compton Croquet Clubs over the last four days. This is the second year running that Cheshire have been pipped at the post on the final day.

Going into the final day Cheshire had 7 wins out of 8 and they improved on that this morning with a 3-0 defeat of  Dorset, which included Bowdon's Alan Linton, but then lost to Notts in the deciding tie. David Maugham and Brian Storey finished with the very impressive record of having won 9 out of the 10 games they played.

Matches played Saturday to Monday:
Wins against  Sussex 3-0 (all pairings won),  Middlesex 2-1 (Maugham/Storey & Irwin/Winn),  Essex 2-1 (Maugham/Storey & Lines/Cooper), Surrey 2-1 (Maugham/Storey & Irwin/Winn), Glamorgan 2-1 (Maugham/Storey & Irwin/Winn), Yorkshire 3-0 and 2-1 against Lancashire (Maugham/Storey & Lines/Cooper) and a loss against Somerset 1-2 (Maugham/Storey).

  Other Bowdon members taking part were: Keith Aiton (Nottinghamshire), Ailsa Lines (Lancashire), Alan Linton (Dorset), David Walters (Glamorgan), Richard Griffiths (Channel Islands) and Martin Granger Brown (Warwickshire).

CHESHIRE TEAM 2008
David Maugham, Ian Lines, Brian Storey,
Ken Cooper, Colin Irwin, Andrew Winn