U11B match vs. Portsmouth Community today

Commiserations on being beaten by a single run – a bye off the very last ball of the match. It doesn’t come closer than that and the match see-sawed between a number of different outcomes making it a thrilling game to spectate. We batted first having lost the toss and Oscar A and George put on some quick runs to get us off to a good start. This pair were followed by Oscar M and Charlie who also played some good shots to keep the runs coming but unfortunately we started to see what was eventually going to be our demise, the loss of wickets. Overall we lost 11 wickets meaning we could have had 55 runs more on the board by the time we finished. A combination of lobbing up a few catches, one of which was very well taken by the opposition, and not playing defensively enough when the ball was bowled on target. If some of the shots had connected we would have been collecting the ball from Portsmouth’s home ground 20 miles away! Adam also deserved credit for some good shots including a fine boundary. The bowling started well with a maiden. We also took a few wickets and combined with some much more accurate bowling than we saw early in the season, the opposition were only on 204 after 13 overs chasing our 248. Unfortunately the run rate then picked up dramatically as they had kept their best batsmen for last. Oscar M came on to bowl the last over with the opposition needing just 3 runs. A single off the second ball and then 2 byes off the last two balls left us beaten by a nose. Nevertheless there were some good bowling figures including Tom E with 1 for 1, Tom S-T with 1 for 4, Oscar A with 2 for 1 and Oscar M with 0 for 1. Well played everyone and I hope you all enjoyed it.