Cobwebs blown away into desert

JEREMY FRITH, Stuart Le Prevost and Ben Ferbrache all helped themselves to half-centuries in Sharjah yesterday.

Guernsey thrashed a London Invitation XI by a massive 203 runs, but if there was a downside to the comfort of the friendly win it is that it hardly answered any questions.

The fight for places is intense with Guernsey having just one more outing in Dubai before their Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division Five campaign kicks off on Saturday.

Yesterday's win in their first warm-up game at the impressive Sharjah Cricket Stadium in the UAE saw several staking their claim to be in the starting XI to face Bahrain in Singapore in three days' time and, if anything, made the management team's job even harder.

• During the day team captain Stuart Le Prevost was interviewed on Radio Five Live's Test Match Specia programme by cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew. You can hear the interview on iPlayer for the next five days - http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01c1ckg/ Fast forward to 4hrs 20mins into the broadcast.