GRAYSHOTT seamer Danny Brown chose the last day of the season to join the select band of I’Anson bowlers who have taken all 10 wickets in an innings.

Coming on second change, Brown performed his remarkable feat against relegated Wrecclesham and made certain that a low-key season by Grayshott’s standards ended on a high note.

A defiant Wrecclesham opted to bat first and opener Matt Parkinson blasted a quickfire 44. Young speedster Alex Marden struggled with the Wrecclesham slope and no-balls deprived him of two wickets.

The introduction of Brown changed the game. His nagging accuracy and clever changes of pace immediately had the batsmen in trouble and three quick victims included the dangerous Mitch Brown. Ravi Rajapaske struck some fine shots alongside Parkinson and runs came at a fast rate, but theirs was the only real partnership of the innings.

Brown again struck in a cluster, removing Parkinson, Cedric Cooray and Dan Vasey in the same over, and suddenly he had the first six wickets. He then bowled Rajapaske for 40 and when Phil Hogg and Joe Boniface followed soon afterwards, Brown was on the verge of entering the history books.

But the last pair of Graham Larby and Barry Croucher took root and when Brown began his 13th and penultimate over, it looked like the achievement might pass him by.

However, the fourth ball of that over lifted to take Larby’s glove and looped slowly to Andy Wheble at first slip. The Grayshott players mobbed Brown who returned figures of 12.4-2-34-10.

Wrecclesham were all out for 119 and Grayshott needed to ensure there were no batting disasters and that Brown finished on the winning side.

Openers Wheble and Ravi Sriharan duly dug in against the accurate attack of Cooray and Brown and a gritty stand of 116 made certain of the eight points.

Wheble led the way with a masterly 76 not out and when Sriharan departed for a solid 27, the visitors needed just four for victory.

Matt Haywood hammered his first ball to the boundary and the game was over. And were the strains of ‘Oh Danny Boy’ later to be heard at the Grayshott pavilion?