Petersfield U15 v Portsmouth U15

Petersfield U15 Match Report

Petersfield U15 v Portsmouth U15 – 5^th July 2013

Result:

Petersfield U15 – 155 for 4; Portsmouth U15 – 114 for 5

Petersfield U15 Won by 41 runs

Petersfield U15 maintained their good run with their 3^rd victory in succession beating 10 man Portsmouth by 41 runs at the Heath on Friday night. The win was achieved despite losing Ned Harvey to an injured finger during the warm up. Portsmouth won the toss and decided to insert Petersfield. The Petersfield openers, Gabriel Broadhurst and Dan Parry, started briskly scoring 27 runs off the first 2 overs with Broadhurst in particular punishing anything lose from the Portsmouth bowlers. Dan Parry played an effective supporting role and helped keep Broadhurst on strike. However with the score on 72 in the 9^th over Dan Parry shuffled across his stumps and was clean bowled by Joe Thompson for 22 runs (scored in only 16 balls). Two balls later Gabriel Broadhurst had to retire for 50 not out (scored in 44 balls) and so half way through the innings Petersfield had two new batsmen. Josh Bird entered the fray hit a very crisp boundary and was then caught by the Portsmouth keeper off the impressive Matt Chapman (3 overs 1 wicket for 7 runs) for 6. Rory Claasen came out to bat and was unfortunately run out without troubling the scorer and at 79 for 3 it looked like the wheels were coming off the Petersfield innings. Oliver Simpson and Joe Mayell started to rebuild the Petersfield innings before Joe Mayell was bowled by Rocken-Suss for 8 runs with the score on 99 during the 15^th over. Oliver Simpson (37 not out from 22 balls) and Matt Friend (27 not out from 16 balls) pulverised the final few Portsmouth overs with 30 runs coming from the final two overs with Matt Friend scoring 3 fours in the second to last over and Oliver Simpson scoring 4 fours in the final over. This meant that Petersfield ended their innings on 155 for 4 off their 20 overs achieving maximum batting points for the first time this season.

Portsmouth began their reply steadily against the accurate bowling of Tom Pocock (4 overs 0 for 10) and Ollie Simpson (4 overs 0 for 22). After 6 overs, Alex Squires (4 overs 1 for 21) the Petersfield captain brought Dan May (4 overs 2 for 29) and himself on to replace the opening bowlers. Anything short from Dan May was punished by the Portsmouth batsman to the short leg-side boundary despite heroic fielding efforts from Gabriel Broadhurst. One of the Petersfield coaches could be heard from the boundary bemoaning the fact that Petersfield were keeping a slip (a view shared by Dan's dad who was umpiring at square leg) when Dan May enticed an edge from the dangerous Dan Wallace which was snaffled up Dan Parry at first slip. In his next over the May / Parry combination worked again to oust Joe Kooner-Evans who had scored a rapid 15 off only 11 balls. This proved that on occasions coaches can get it wrong and more importantly the need to set fields for good balls not bad balls. Alex Squires, who was bowling very tidily, then got in on the act bowling Charlie Slim for 14 runs. This left Portsmouth at 77 for 3 off 14 overs. Matt Friend (2 overs 1 for 5) bowled very economically and got Jackson Rocken-Suss out for 1 and then some very neat fielding from Ollie Simpson ran out the stubborn Matt Chapman for a very well-crafted 21 from 38 balls. Adam Joy (22 not out) and Sam Sparks (5 not out) then saw Portsmouth through to a respectable 114 for 5 off their 20 overs. It was a good win for Petersfield although the 10 byes and 8 no-balls could have proved costly.

Teams:

Petersfield : G Broadhurst; D Parry; J Bird; J Mayell ⁽⁺⁾; R Claasen; O Simpson; M Friend; T Pocock; A Squires ^(*); D May; N Harvey

Portsmouth: D Wallace; M Chapman; J Kooner-Evans; C Slim ⁽⁺⁾; J Rocken-Suee; A Joy ^(*); S Sparkes; J Thompson; J Brooke; T Wallace

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