Under 13 match report

Match reports for the Under 13 games against Fareham & Crofton and Old Netley

After 2 away games in a week Petersfield ended up with 1 win and 1 defeat

Sunday 8th June Petersfield travelled to Fareham and were asked to field first

After an initial onslaught from the Fareham opening bat V Sahu (30 retired not out) who looked a class above to the other batsmen of Fareham, playing some wonderful shots on the up.

The opening partnership was broken by some more wonderful fielding from Tommy Matthews as he ran out T Peary (2) with the score on 21. O Pratt (10) then joined Sahu and they took the score along to 45 before Matthews did it again with a fine throw to run Pratt out.

Oscar Maclean (4 overs 3 wickets 7 runs) then came on and bowled a superb line and length bowling fantastically well for the 2nd week on the trot picking up the middle order of Fareham as the run rate was slowed considerably by Mclean and Harvey Baker (4-0-11).

Max Saint (2-3-2)  then replaced Harvey Baker and out did his close friend Oscar as he picked up a double wicket maiden in his first over and was a coat of varnish away from a hatrick.

With Tommy Matthews (1-0-0) and Saint bowling the last overs Fareham finished their innings on 80 runs

The Petersfield innings got off to a bad start when skipper Joe Clarke lost his middle stump to good ball from C Rumbles (4-1-4). The chase was moving along slowly and when Will Milner-Smith (11) got out to Harrington (3-1-15) the score was on 28 in the 8 over. Max Saint (28 not out) and Tommy Matthews (31 not out) then steadied the ship and they kept things ticking along nicely against some tight Fareham bowling. With 5 over left the rate had risen to 6 an over but the pair showed great maturity as they did not panic and punished anything short and wide with Matthews in particular hitting some big shots on the on-side. The pair saw Petersfield home in the last over of the game as Matthews powerfully pulled Perry to the mid-wicket boundary for 4. A very good advert for the U13 A league

Men of the Match - Tommy Matthews and Max Saint for their all round efforts with Bat, Ball and in the field

Moment of the Match - Will Milner Smith for his superb catch at square leg diving forward

This game was quickly followed by a game at Old Netley on Wednesday 11th June Petersfield travelled to Old Netley. The game got off to a bad start when there was a bad accident on the M27 meaning a delayed start to the game. This forced the coaches to reduce the overs to 16 to get the game in before the light faded.  

Petersfield batted first but just lost wickets at too regularly and if it had not been for the wides and no balls conceded would only have made 40 odd runs and with the exception of WIll Milner-Smith (13) no one made it into double figures. Old Netley then made a very short work of the chase as Petersfield bowled too short and the game was over in the 9th over as they chased down the total losing only 2 wickets. The late and disrupted start did not help and the coach put it down to that and just one of those days