Petersfield Sunday v DACD
After what can only be described as a
biblical downpour on Sunday morning, Petersfield Sunday XI turned up
at Penn's place expecting a very wet pitch and outfield. This was not
the case and despite what looked like a pitch conducive to batting
the DACD captain inserted Petersfield much to Marcus Sampson's
delight as we wanted to bat anyway was the response to the gathered
media ;-)
Jack Hanam (62) opened the batting with
Alex Thomas (2) and the innings started off brightly with Jack
hitting some big 4s and 6s off the opening bowlers before Thomas
mistimed a slower ball back to the bowler Mike Wyatt (2-20 off 8).
This bough Ben Friend to the wicket who followed his 36 on Saturday
with a fluent 63, with some lovely sweep shots including a massive 6
(2 in two days for young Ben). Before falling to the “commentators
curse” as discussions in the pavilion revolved around whether he
had ever scored a senior hundred. The scoring rate was high
throughout the innings thanks to Matt Salmons nice 36, Rory Newmans
fluent 25 not out and a cameo of an innings from Dave Squires (15 not
out) leaving Field with a good total of 220.
After a good tea the DACD openers came
out with all guns blazing taking advantage of wayward bowling from
Dave Squires (0-20 off 3) and Nicky Caddick (0-12 off 3 with a
maiden!), must be something about opening the bowling from the other
end to Squires as the usually reliable Caddick bowling some very
uncharacteristic wide delivery's. Jack Hanam (2-18 off 8) helped to
keep the DACD openers under some sort of control but as drinks were
taken they were up with the rate on 106. This prompted some
discussion between Jack and Marcus on field placings with Jack asking
for a fly slip to be posted in his first over after drinks. Despite
his opening partner warning him about the dangers just after drinks
Tim Barton (56) took a swipe at a rising delivery and was caught at
fly slip by Simon Dodd. At this point field started to squeeze the
DACD batting with some tight bowling but Meredydd Hughes (64)
continued to score off anything loose keeping the run rate needed to
overhaul Petersfield at about 7 an over.
Marcus Sampson then bought on young
Alex Squires (3-9 off 4 overs) to compliment the always economical
Mark Holloway (1-19 off 8), could have had more but for a couple of
dropped catches .
In his first over he had the very
dangerous Meredydd caught at gully. He then proceeded to remove
'Danger Man' Mike Wyatt with his now trademark in swinging/dipping
nasty delivery which has lots of batsmen in trouble. With the help of
his father at Mid-on he picked up his 3rd wicket and was
unlucky not to get more with a speel of bowling which impressed his
captain and the opposition to leave him with weekend figures of 6-27
off 8 overs, very good from the young 14 year old (even if he
outshone his dad). Then came the moment that most of the team were
dreading as wicket keeper Alex Thomas was allowed to bowl the last
over with over 40 needed. To describe Alex's bowling as spin could
lead me to being sued under the trade descriptions act and this was
true as James Miller planted his 2nd delivery over deep
mid wicket for a massive six that had the rabbits running for cover
20 yards from the boundary edge. Undaunted by this Thomas then
proceeded to get one to miss that bat and Matt Salmon (who kept very
well to say he has not been keeping at all this summer) whipped the
bails off to leave Miller stranded and young Thomas dancing a jig of
delight around the pitch to pick up his first senior wicket and last
as his dad said he was retiring from bowling with that one over. The
discussion on the way back to the pavillion revolved around the
umpire just wanting the game over and to get to the pub prompting the
dubious stumping decision with the batsmen and half the Petersfield
players saying 'he was in by miles'
All in all a fantastic game of cricket
with over 400 runs scored played in bright sunshine in a great spirit
which at the end of the day is what it is all about. Well done to
Petersfield, well played DACD .
MOM – Alex Squires for his 3-9 which
changed the game in Petersfield favour
Magic Moment – Alex Thomas being hit
for a six (hmm ok his first wicket)
Best Fielding – The fact that Dave
Squires finally held a catch off his son's bowling to leave scorer
Judith Squires having to fill out the book with Caught D Squires
Bowled A Squires
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