Match report: Petersfield 2s vs Waterlooville 2s

Petersfield’s young players starred in a convincing 10-wicket win for the 2s over Waterlooville 2s in a pre-season friendly on the weekend.

After winning the toss and inserting Waterlooville on a green Penns pitch, albeit one with excellent pace and carry (fantastic work Toby), Ben Turk opened the bowling with a beautiful spell combining control, pace and swing to pick up 3 wickets for just 5 runs off 6 overs (final figures 8-3-10-3).

Ollie Simpson continued to carry the attack to our opponents and fully deserved his haul of 4 wickets. There were good spells too for Chris Russell (1 for 23) and debutant Steve Gibson (1 for 14).

The odd chance went down but ‘Field mainly hung on to their catches, with two for skipper Rich Stephens and two at slip for the Silver Fox himself, Dave Squires, the second of which an absolute blinder, pouched nonchalantly with the minimum of fuss. AT behind the stumps also grabbed one to go with a trademark stumping, all of which meant Waterlooville were all out for 133 in the 38th over.

Openers Gabe Broadhurst (78* off 86 balls) and Alex Thomas (44* off 58) proceeded to knock off the runs in an impressive unbeaten partnership of 137. Both showed real intent with their positive stroke play and running between the wickets (mostly!), to the extent that the total was overhauled in only the 24th over.

This was a useful work-out for the 2s against a team two divisions higher in the league and the form of our younger players in particular bodes very well for the season ahead.

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Grayswood win first friendly of the season

Petersfield II v Grayswood II

Venue - Penns Place

Date - 11th April 2015

The first game of the season got underway under bright blue skies after early morning rain

looked to threaten the warm up game against our friends from Grayswood.

Petersfield fielded first and got off to the perfect start as Ben Turk (8 overs 1 maiden 20 run 1 wicket)  removed Tom White with only his 2nd delivery as Ben got one to jag back through the gate to remove the off stump, a cracking delivery to get in the first warm up game (unlucky Tom). Andrew Surridge (16) was the next to go as Nicky Caddick (8 - 1 - 26 - 1) bowled a very similar delivery as Ben's to remove Surridge's leg stump this time from around the wicket.. Simon Beckett (36)  and Dominic Westcott-White (5) then steadied the ship although scoring was difficult as Dave Squires (8 - 2 - 26 - 2) and Shaun Blanks (6 - 0 - 16 - 0) bowled tight lines getting movement off the seam and in the air.

The pressure eventually told with the score on 48 as a very sharp piece of keeping from Alex Thomas finished off a good plan from Dave Squires as Dominic was stumped down the leg side. Beckett then went 3 or 4 overs later to give Squires his 2nd wicket as a slower delivery led to him being caught at mid-off by Skipper Richard Stephens. Cam Kent (28) then came in and proceeded to show the work done in Australia over the winter was worth it as he scored his runs at better than a run a ball before mistiming a lofted drive to Ash Spencer at a deep mid-on to give Jack Hannam (6 - 0 - 25 - 4) the first of his 4 wickets, proving his back issues were in the past.

Robert Rist (25 not out) was holding the innings together at the other end but was helpless as Jack Hannam blew away the lower order removing Jonathan (7), George Gwynn (0) and Jeremy Surtes (0) in the same over. Max Beckett (0 not out) and Robert Rist survived the last couple of overs and pushed the score up to 128 off the 40 overs. A very good bowling performance from all the bowlers who showed they had blown away the winter cobwebs with Jack Hannam the pick of the bowlers.

Petersfield took to the field in confident mood with a long batting line up but things did not pan out as they had hoped.

Robert Rist (8 - 5 - 16 -3) bowled an inspired spell as it took Petersfield 29 deliveries to score a run off his bowling. Rist removed Toby Austin (1), Ash Spencer (3) and Alex Thomas (10) to leave Petersfield on 17 - 3 in the 9th over. Ben Anscombe (16) and Will Rice (16) started to rebuild the innings and took Petersfield to 47 before Will Rice was clean bowled by Cam Kent (8 - 0 - 23 - 3). In the same over Cam Kent accounted for Ben Anscombe who got a nick through to keeper Tom White. At the other end Simon Beckett (4.3 - 2 - 5 - 3) took over where Rist had left off as he removed Ben Turk (1), Shaun Blanks (0) in the same over although Shaun was convinced he had missed the ball and it hit the stumps despite being given out caught behind. Richard Stephens (0) got a grubber to be clean bowled by Kent before Nicky Caddick (16) slashed his way to 16 before laying the shot 1 too many times and missing a straight one from Beckett to give Grayswood the win by 56 runs. Well played Grayswood

Not a great way for Petersfield to start the season but it was good to blow the cobwebs out of the system and get the season underway.

Scorecard

http://petersfield.play-cricket.com/website/results/2546196

1s game off but training session for seniors in its place

Hi everyone - the 1s friendly game on Sunday has been cancelled by the opposition. 1st team skipper Jack Hannam​ would like to invite all the seniors and colts playing senior cricket this season along to a training session at Penns Place from 1300 to 1600. This is a great opportunity for the whole club to get together.  The weather is set fair on Sunday so see everyone there.

Fundraising bag pack a great success

There was a superb effort by everyone at the bag pack on Friday. We had a great day and raised an incredible total of £875.01, which was a fantastic achievement by all concerned.

We had lots of praise and kind words for our colts, who worked their socks off and were superb representatives for the club. So, at the risk of missing anybody out (and apologies if I do), thanks go to:

Henry and Oscar Amis; Thomas Mason; George and Will McCurrach; Seb Browning; Ben Moller; Fergus and David Evans; Will and Jack McKechnie; Jack and Mark Butcher; Ollie Simpson; Dan May; Rory Crispin; Alex Hulme; Max Halder; Tommy Matthews; Ben and Lucy Turk; Maya Lilley; Lucy Hilton; Amelia Hammond; Benjamin Spencer; Tom Griffin; and Tom Stratford-Tuke.

Thanks also to Dan Amis, Paddy May, Nick Halder, Sarah Turk, Jonathan Ware, Ash Spencer, and James ST (for going through the checkout twice!).

Special thanks go to Liz and Judith Squires for the organisation & supervision; Dave Squires, who definitely has potential as an ace Waitrose basket mover and for pointing the punters in the direction of the Easter eggs at regular intervals; and Alex Thomas, who never wants to see another Waitrose carrier bag in his life after a gruelling 6-hour shift at the checkout coalface.

Well done everyone! Really great stuff.