Ronnie Riddett is officially having the season of his life. Before this week he'd managed two half-centuries and a hundred in the seven games that he'd played; that panned out to a very cool 280 runs scored at an average of 70. Well, that's now 387 runs at an average of 96.7; this is getting into Don Bradman territory.

To be fair, Bradman scored his runs against the likes of Harold Larwood and Bill Voce. The attacks Riddett's facing may not quite be of that vintage, but any time a player scores a century - let alone two of them - he's doing really well. The man is on fire.

Logistical confusion!
Things did not, however, begin particularly auspiciously for Riddett or indeed a number of the other Twickenham players. Whether it was the SatNavs that went doo-lally or an organisational glitch in the matrix, they turned up ready to roll......at the wrong ground.

As it happens, the Twickenham CC U10s were playing at the ground they appeared at (Richmond's main ground at Old Deer Park) and they promptly turned the 12s round and sent them on their way, new postcode in hand.

But by the time the Ts finally did assemble it was basically a case of out of the car and straight out to bat. There was subsequently no prep time for either Riddett or skipper Austin Belshaw; off they went.....

Belshaw certainly started well enough, his 23 came off 24 balls. By the time Belshaw left the fray the Ts already had 78 on the board and Riddett was blasting merrily away. He hit 19 fours and one six in what was an excellent 107, eventually returning to the pavilion to take on some liquids and look forward to a stint in the field.

The Ts, however, weren't quite finished. Jake Hendry (20no off 15) and Ishaan Jain (7no off 8) added a speedy 22 before the Ts closed on 179 (see here for the card).

Riddett and Anay Singh grab three wickets each
Richmond started their chase well enough. The openers put on 24 for the first wicket, before Riddett entered the fray ball in hand.

Three balls later and he had a hat-trick to his name. Two of the victims were caught (by Jake Hendry and Ishaan Jain), the third was clean bowled. Richmond had gone from being in a promising starting position to being significantly behind the game.

The rest of the Ts' bowling attack came to the party to ensure that there really was no way back for the hosts. The Richmond skipper batted very well for his 46no (off 33 balls), but in truth he didn't get a great deal of support.

Anay Singh in particular caught the eye. He only ended up bowling nine balls, claimed 3-4 along the way; that represented Singh's best bowling performance for the Ts, beating the 3-22 he took against the same opposition last season.

Dylan Palmer (2-10), Theo Brown (1-12) and Jake Hendry (1-1) also ended with wickets to their name as Richmond closed on 122 all out.

The win sees the U12s move 17 points clear at the top of Division Three (see here). They've now two games left and their next contest looks very much like it'll be the key one in dictating where the title goes; they host second placed Hampton Wick A on Thursday 3 July.