BRENTWOOD chairman Paul Webb revealed that bowling maestro Anthony Giles was told not to play by his physiotherapist in Saturday's big win over Wanstead & Snaresbrook.
After recording 226-9, the hosts knocked the stuffing out of Wanstead, who were bowled out for 103.
Giles put in a top performance to take three wickets alongside Max Osborne's five to confirm victory, and Webb hopes he'll be able to play again this Saturday against Upminster in the league and possibly Buckhurst Hill on Sunday in cup competition.
"That was Anthony's first game back after a back injury," Webb said.
"He was only out for a couple of weeks but his physio was telling him he really shouldn't be playing and doing anything apart from lying down flat.
"Anthony will probably play again this Saturday assuming he has no bad reaction, and we've still got Tom Moore to come back as one of our opening bowlers.
"Max Osborne also bowled very well at the weekend and was pretty hostile."
After losing their first game of the season to South Woodford the weekend before, Brentwood hit back in fine fashion, with opening batsman Aaron West hitting 68 runs and James Redwood scoring another 89 soon after Jon Walford and Dave Hammond had been dismissed.
And Redwood also played his part in the field with two successive catches to dismiss Ryan Hamill and Petrus Hattingh.
"It was a massive win as they won the league last year, so they would have been our biggest rivals in terms of us looking to win it this year," said Webb.
"We would have expected a tough game as we're both decent teams, but to beat them in such convincing fashion was a huge result.
"With the bat, Aaron opened it up and made a good start, while James [Redwood] batted very well with him soon after.
"I think we laid down a marker, and even though we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, the way we beat them and the margin of victory, we hope it sent out a message to the rest of the league and that it wasn't a tight game – we steamrollered them."
