Result: Petersfield CC - Friendly XI - Won by 1 wickets
Type: Friendly
Toss: Steep CC - Sunday 1st XI won the toss and elected to bat
Date: Sunday 22nd June 2014
As above Petersfield captain Dave Squires lost his first toss of the season and the Sunday XI were asked to take to the field on a scorchingly hot day at the Heath.
Ed Davenport (5 overs-0 wickets-16 runs) continued his fine form for the Sunday XI and bowled well without taking a wicket. Oli Simpson (4-0-16) suprised his captain by announcing he did not like using the new ball ! After bowling 2 good overs Oli requested to come off and was replaced by Ben Turk (7-2-22) who removed D Knight (31) with a beautiful full in swinging delivery. Knight was quickly followed by Steep skipper John Smith (14) who survived a very good LBW appeal but then proceeded to wander down the pitch and after a very sharp piece of thinking, was run out. Tom Mccubin (66 not out) came in and batted very well as he looked to rebuild the innings after the openers had been scoring at 5.5 runs an over before they were both out as above on 54. Toby Austin (6-1-12) then removed P Frost for a duck as Liam Charles took a simple catch in the covers. Young Will Yates (Ben Turks best friend) then came in and showed great maturity and batted for 10 overs for his 9, he was unfortunate as Petersfields bowlers had regained the initiative and pulled the scoring back to 3 an over. With Helen Whititaker (4-0-21) and Simon Dodd (6-0-27) baking Toby up only Mccubin was scoring any runs as he moved quickly along to his 50. Will Rice making his opening bow of the Sunday season also bowled tightly only conceding 7 runs off his 4 overs. Ben Turk then removed his best friend Will Yates off the first ball of his comeback over. Steep finished their innings on 136 on a good pitch and a lot of credit must go to Petersfield for how well they bowled and fielded in the hot temperatures as they could easily have wilted.
After a good and plentiful tea provided by Ed Davenport the teams retook the field suitably fed and watered. Jack Hannam (28) and Will Rice (19) set about knocking the target off and as in the Steep innings got Petersfield off to a flying start before Hannam was caught behind off Will Yates (5-1-9) as ball bounced unexpectedly off a length. Will Rice then hit a double bouncing delivery from Jonh Cosgrove (7-3-21) straight down skipper John Smiths throat at deep midwicket. He trudged off having looked in fabulous nick. Toby Austin (2) then got a spinning delivery from Cosgrove but could only hit it straight back at the bowler. He was quickly followed by Simon Dodd(0) who edged to the keeper. From 54 for no wicket Petesfield found themselves 57-4 a collapse of England proportions. Oli Simpson (13) and Helen Whittaker (15) took the score along to 81 before SImpson got a delivery then went both ways according to the young man as he lost stumps. Skipper Squires came in looking to repeat his long vigil of last week only to last 10 balls this time despite one sweetly timed cover drive for 4. At that stage a victory looked a long way off with the score on 89-6. Helen continued to bat well and she and Ben Turk (25) took the score along to 98 before Helen was out bowled by the very effective Steep skipper John Smith (7.4-3-31). So it was then all down to Ben Turk, Liam Charles and Alex Squires to try and get their skipper his first home win of the season. Ben and Liam (21 not out) took Petersfield to within 10 runs of victory when Ben holed out to midon trying to hit another 4. This left just Alex Squires (an average of 2 last season) and Liam to see the Sunday XI over the line. Alex blocked 5 balls then there was a big shout for LBW against him. He survived this and the last ball of the over needing just 6 to win. Liam Charles took the scores level as he and Squires scrambled for a couple of 2s. Liam then proceeded to hit John Smith over deep midwicket for 6 to take them home. A good game played between two evenly matched sides that proved even the closet of rivals can get on.
Man of the Match - Liam Charles again for his batting, bowling and catch
Moment of the match - Helen Whittakers fielding at square leg as she stopped 3 4s off 3 balls making it all look very very easy.
Scoresheet
http://petersfield.play-cricket.com/view_results_details?id=11933748
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