On a sunny but windy afternoon Petersfield 3s were looking to build on there good win the previous week and beat Ashford Hill at Penn's Place. Petersfield lost the toss and were inserted by Ashford Hill, with the pitch a bit sticky and the ball not coming on to the bat Petersfield got off to a solid start with James Stratford-Tuke (11) and Eoin Seager(25), after the two openers got out to Monger (3-24) Ollie Shapley (27) and Gabriel Broadhurst (15) carried on the good work work of the openers before Monger removed Shapely. John Windebank (1) was unlucky to be given out LBW and Calvin Boyd (6) trying to push the run rate up supporting Bob Weymes (36 not out). Ben Cox (11 not out) came in a played a couple of lovely straight drives to push the score up to 159-6.
After tea Simon Dodd (1-29) removed the opener with a lovely ball taking out the top of off stump. This bought Gundry (36) to the crease who showed he is a better batsmen than a number 11 where he normally bats with a 6 and 4 fours over cow corner before being caught off Shapely (3-11 off 7) by the keeper trying the same shot. Once he was removed the bowlers of Petersfield took complete control with Dave Squires (1-9 off 7) and Calvin Boyd (3-9 off 6. 1) keeping a tight reign on the scoring. With Bob Weymes running out Buckner with a superb throw from square leg with only one stump to aim at the game was over with Petersfield winning by 90 runs. A mention for Ben Cox who despite bowling to the dangerous Gundry posted figures of 0-18 off his 8 overs, deserved a wicket or two with some lovely inswinging bowling.
All in all a very good performance from Petersfield after losing a few players due to call ups to 2s and 1s, the captain James Stratford-Tuke will be pleased with the way the team are progressing this season, especially with how the colts are rising to the challenge of playing league cricket
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