Geograph - photograph every grid square

Each September the Island Sailing Club from Cowes and the Royal Southern Yacht Club from Hamble contest a cricket match on the Bramble Bank, a sandbar exposed only at the very lowest tides.

As the victors play host to the post-match celebrations, it helps if the winners are prearranged, and so they are: the ISC win in even years and the RSYC in odd ones. Match-fixing in cricket is alive and well.

In 2012, the combination of a strong south-westerly wind and a low tide that really wasn't especially low meant that there was some doubt about whether the sea would recede entirely from the bank.

This photograph shows players from the ISC having just taken the, er, field. Cricket's favourite admiral - for complex reasons, scores of 111, 222, 333 etc. are known as "Nelson", "double Nelson", "triple Nelson", etc. - watches from the (forgive me) deep.