On a glorious North Hampshire morning Petersfield turned up looking to gain revenge for their early season defeat to Steep. The captain won the toss and decided as it was an artificial pitch to bat first. Joe Mayall (1) and Dan Parry (5) soon went, followed by the rest of the top order, Tom Pocock (2), Will Morton-Scott (0) and Rob Schofield (1) found it difficult to adjust to the artificial wicket and the length being much fuller than they are used too. Josh Bird (14) came I, steadied the batting and despite a couple of fortunate shots just missing fielders played some lovely shots before chasing a wide and getting caught out at point he was ably supported by Rory Classen (2) who despite only getting 2 showed great bravery after getting hit in the ribs and stayed with Josh to mount a mini recovery to take Petersfield to 36-6. Dan Eglestaff (1) came in swinging to try and push the score on. Ollie Simpson (12 not out) then ran his partner Alex Squires out (0) after a big mix up but along with Will Grange (7) played some classy shots to push the total beyond 50 for a final total of 61 and 1 batting point.
To sum up the batting too many wickets were lost early on and the lads did well to recover from 13-5 to post the score they did.
Needing early wickets Alex Squires (0-14) opened the bowling and despite good form in the nets could not repeat the performance. Tom Pocock (1-4) bowled very well in his 2 overs justifying his captain’s faith in him by taking the first wicket. Ollie Simpson (0-3) came on first change and was unlucky not to pick up a wicket or two, bowling the sort of line just outside off stump that the coaches had been asking for. Rob Schofield (0-15) was unlucky, Dan Parry (0-1) and Will Morton-Scott (0-2) bowled tidily before Will Grange (0-5) and Dan Eglestaff (1-5) bowled the remaining overs with both causing the batsmen problems Dan picking up the only other wicket to fall to leave Steep with the double for the season.
We were 40 runs short of a defendable total I am afraid, but a good effort in the end.
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