Petersfield travelled to a few miles north of Basingstoke to take on Basingstoke and North hants 5th xi. Having left Petersfield with the rain falling the team were not confident of getting a full game in but in the end there was 1 shower but not interruption to play. On a very dark and grass covered pitch James Stratford-Tuke won the toss and inserted the opposition.
The opening bowlers did not bowl well and despite picking up 1 of the openers cheaply gave the Basingstoke players too many hittable balls which they took full advantage of. The scoring rate was slowed with some very nice legspin from Tristan O'Brien (3-52) and Josh Phipps (3-68) restricting all the other batsmen to low scores. The stand out innings was from J Ahuyi with a fine 106 ( although was dropped having made only 20) before being run out pushing for a 2 off a misfield at deep cover.
Enter youngsters Rob Straw (15) and Oliver Simpson (13) who picked up a wicket a piece to clean up the tail, Oliver Simpson picking up his first senior wicket on his debut. The Basingstoke team scored a total of 225.
Petersfield started well but had trouble getting the boundaries they needed to keep up with the required rate, against some fine opening bowlers and some long grass in the outfield. The need to push the scoring on led to Stratford-Tuke (10) being run out in similar fashion to the Basingstoke opener. Eoin Seager (14) and Ben Friend (35) batted very well against a leg spinner who was getting the ball to turn 2ft most balls. Gabriel Broadhurst (12 years old) made it a hatrick of good performances with a well constructed 9 before being caught in the chest which seemed to knock his concentration. After a small cameo from Simpson (4 not out) and O'Brien (1 not out) saw out the overs but Petersfield fell 116 short of there total.
All in all it was a promising performance for the future with some young players doing well in difficult circumstances, it could have been very different with a bit of luck. Above all the highlight was the disciplined application when the game could have run a away from us during the Basingstoke innings, it was a great effort to get them all out and ultimately we were beaten by a very good side with a bowling attack that would grace sides in higher leagues than ours.
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