After yesterdays washout for the 3 senior sides the hope was that the Heath would have dried out enough for play, our fears were allayed as we turned up on a glorious Sunday afternoon. The pitch looked a bit soft and after the toss Petersfield were to bat.
Jack Hannam (56) and Will Rice (10) started brightly despite the bowler extracting some remarkable bounce from the pitch until Will got a ball that did not bounce and almost ran down his bat before trickling onto to his off stump, Will looked back in disbelief at the bails on the floor. Cameron Clarke (31) came out to bat with Jack Hannam putting on a 66 run partnership before Jack got a delivery that like Will did not bounce at all to bowl him. Cameron departed soon after picking out the only Bedhampton fielder (Martin Hovey) who was able to hold on to a catch (keeping up Sunday friendly cricket tradition and dropping 5 catches if not 6) at deep square leg trying to hit another massive 6. Rory Newman (43) joined Harry Hannam (64) and put on 84 for the 5th wicket scoring numerous 4's at around 10 an over to setup some late innings cameos from Dave Squires (11 not out) and Simon Dodd (6). Bedhampton then bought on their star turn young Joe Hovey (2-4 off 1 over) who bowled straight and fooled the batsmen into a couple of false shots, not bad for a 9 year old who made his wicket keeper father’s day getting first team fast bowler Nicky Caddick out with his first ball. Petersfield finished on 240-9.
After a very nice tea (another Sunday tradition) Petersfield took to the field with Dave Squires (1-31) opening the bowling and removing the dangerous wicketkeeper batsmen (Chris Hovey) with his first ball. This bought the keeper’s other son to the wicket (talented family the Hoveys) Harry Hovey (53) putting on 59 with C Smith(19) before Alex Squires (3-33) removed Smith with his dangerous dipping in swinger that causes the batsmen so many problems. Young Joe Hovey (1) came out and did very well against some demon spin bowling from Rice (0-28) and Mark Holloway (1-33) before he parted to a lofted shot to young Caddick, who along with Mark Holloway got revenge (if you can call it that against a 9 year old!) for their earlier dismissals. Martin Hovey (27) then came out and put on 40 with Harry Hovey before he was caught on on the boundary at deep cover by Cameron Clarke (strange symmetry in this game) in an almost identical dismissal to Clarke's earlier in the day. Alex Squires then removed young Hampshire batsman Harry Hovey, he followed this up with the wicket of Quade(4) in his last over to continue his good end of season run in the Sunday team with another 3 wickets pushing Mark Holloway all way for the best bowler award. Some late innings hitting from Mcintyre (45 Not out) and Welland (19) before the former was brilliantly taken by the keeper (Salmon) with a diving catch to his right off Simon Dodd (2-24) following on from his fish like performance for the 2s the previous week. Rory Newman (1-14 off 3 overs) then came off and bowled Welland with an in swinging yorker to finish the game off leaving Bedhampton 39 runs short of their target. This finished off a good game of cricket played in a very friendly atmosphere with a large amount of followers from Bedhampton (not something you see very often).
Man of the match - Harry Hannam and Jack Hannam setting up the victory and keeping it in the family (the theme of the day)
Champagne Moment - young Joe Hovey's first wicket and his dad throwing him into the air in celebration.
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