Petersfield
U15 Match Reports
Petersfield
U15 v Portsmouth Community U15 - 24th
July 2013
Result:
Portsmouth Community U15 – 112 for 5;
Petersfield U15 – 116 for 7
Petersfield U15 won by 3 wickets
Petersfield
U15 beat Portsmouth Community U15 by 3 wickets to go top of the
league, although at one stage it looked for all the world as if
Petersfield were going to lose. Alex Squires the Petersfield captain
won the toss and decided to mix it up by electing to field first so
that although Petersfield would be batting in the gathering gloom
they would know what score to chase.
Ben
Turk (1 for 18) and Alex Squires (1 for 20) bowled very accurately
and restricted Portsmouth Community to 18 from the first 4 overs. Dan
May (0 for 22) and Harry Richards (1 for 19) carried on where Turk
and Squires had left off so that although Portsmouth Community were
not losing any wickets they were not scoring freely. Joe Mayell,
behind the stumps, caught Bowen for 15 in the 10th
over (bowled by Richards) to take the first wicket. A smart bit of
fielding from Joe Clarke saw Cummings run out without troubling the
scorer in the next over. Joe Clarke (0 for 20) replaced Richards and
carried on bowling accurate and dangerous swing bowling. Ben Anscombe
(1 for 9) replaced May and bowled some very controlled off spin which
caused the Portsmouth batsman no end of trouble and he took a
well-deserved wicket with Dan Parry taking a superb reflex catch at
silly mid-off. Turk and Squires came back to wrap up the Portsmouth
inning each taking a wicket in their second spell caught by Mayell
and Claasen respectively. Portsmouth ended up on 112 for 5 with their
score assisted by 42 extras (although to speed the game up wides and
no-balls were worth 2 runs with no extra ball). It was expected that
this score would be no problem to the normally free scoring
Petersfield.
Gabriel
Broadhurst, who is in superb form, and Dan Parry opened the innings
for Petersfield. With Andrews (0 for 20) and Palmer (2 for 11)
bowling with real control and lots of movement off the pitch
Petersfield were struggling to gain their normal momentum. In the 4th
over Palmer accounted for both Broadhurst (9) and Ben Anscombe (0).
Two overs later Dan Parry was caught by Bowen off his own bowling for
3 off 17 balls. Joe Mayell and Rory Claasen started a mini revival
putting on 15 before Mayell was bowled by Bowen for 4 with Claasen
run out soon after for 9. Tommy Matthews playing his first game for
the U15 took the attack to Portsmouth before he was bowled for 5.
This brought Joe Clarke and Ben Turk to the crease. With more than
half the overs gone and Petersfield on 53 for 6 it looked like
Portsmouth Community were going to gain revenge for their defeat to
Petersfield earlier in the season. However Joe Clarke and Ben Turk
had other ideas. Clarke played the perfect foil to the aggressive and
hard hitting Turk with the pair of them putting on 38 runs before Joe
Clarke was bowled for 5 (in 13 balls) by Max Cummings who had swapped
his normal wicket keeping gear to become a bowler. This brought
Captain Alex Squires to the crease to see if he could save the day
for Petersfield. Squires (6 NO) and Turk (42 NO) saw Petersfield home
with 3 wickets and 1 over to spare. Turk batted beautifully to guide
Petersfield home and although he batted aggressively it was all
proper cricket shots.
This match
brought an end to the Petersfield U15 season. Overall it looks like
they will win the league winning 6 of their 8 games (although 5 of
their games (including both losses) were very close games. The U15
should be proud of what they have achieved this year.
Teams:
Petersfield:
G Broadhurst; D Parry; B
Anscombe; J Mayell (+);
R Claasen; T Matthews; B Turk; J Clarke; A Squires (*);
H Richards; D May
Portsmouth
Community: L Andrews; C Bowen; M
Cummings (+);
W Turner; L Palmer (*);
F Leslie; J Andrews; T Loader; E Palmer; L Salch
http://petersfield.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=11822165
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