JOYOUS Woodhouse Grange skipper Nick Hadfield admitted a ten wicket Davidstow Village Cup final victory at Lord’s was beyond his “wildest dreams”.

The opening batsman confessed to getting little sleep the night before the showpiece with Great and Little Tew at the home of English cricket but he need not have worried – his side dominated from the off in a crushing victory over the Oxfordshire outfit.

“It was nerves,” he said. “I am 34-years-old and I have played here five times but you never lose that. There was also the added impetus as captain. This was my first time.

“I was tossing and turning and thinking over it. I usually ponder things quite a lot. Two hours (sleep) was probably quite an extreme. It was probably about an hour.”

Hadfield, who was 43 not out with the bat as Grange reached their target of 115 with just shy of 17 of the 40 overs remaining, continued: “In your wildest dreams, you wouldn’t think you would win by ten wickets in such a short time.

“Great and Little Tew are going to be very disappointed but they have done fantastically well to get to a showpiece final such as this.

“It was an amazing victory, really. We lost the toss and I would probably have bowled given the conditions – a bit overcast and the pitch a bit green – so I was really pleased.

“The lads bowled exceptionally well, fielded well and took all the catches. We kept them to a score that we would definitely take at half-time and then me and Andrew were positive, went after anything wide and got a bit of luck.

“It was a great victory. To win by ten wickets is amazing.”

Hadfield added that he brought up the team’s final defeat two years ago, when they were soundly beaten by Reed, as motivation for his men to lift their performance levels this time around. Only Josh Jackson didn’t play in that loss.

“In my team talk, I quoted it a few times,” he explained. “At the end of the day we didn’t do ourselves justice in 2012. We didn’t turn up at all, in all facets, and we let ourselves down.

“I just wanted the team to perform to their ability and if you get beaten, when playing well, then fair enough you hold your hands up.

“I thought in all areas we played really well and dominated the game. We didn’t really let them express themselves.”

Bowler David Suddaby was given the man-of-the-match award for his 3-36, wickets which came at crucial times during the innings, and he said: “It was really good. I thought I performed quite well with the ball.

“But everyone took wickets who bowled. We used six bowlers, each as competent as the other, and then for Andrew (Bilton) and Nick to knock it off at a canter was brilliant.”