On what felt like the hottest day of the year Petersfield 2s welcomed Hambledon 3s to the Heath. Hambledon's skipper called wrong and to the relief of the Petersfield players, skipper Richard Stephens elected to bat first.
Richard himself was out in the 2nd over edging through to the keeper off Garin Chapman (2 for 39). Chris Russell was run out with the score on 30 trying to push a 2 to third man but hesitated and was a yard short of his ground. This bought under 15 Ben Anscombe (88) to the crease and he played a couple of glorious cover drives to get his innings moving. Ben and Will Rice (112 not out) played chanceless cricket to take the score too 90-2 when Will played a very uncharacteristic lofted drive to long off but this was dropped by the Hambledon player off his son's bowling. A few overs later Ben was dropped at gully off Tom Toogood's bowling.
The pair discussed taking advantage of the lives they had been given and couldn't have made much more of the chance as they went on to put on 198 for the 3rd wicket with Ben only getting out in the 41st over trying to push the score on and get himself to a hundred. When he edged Chapman through to the keeper. With 10 overs left the score was 150 the skipper was hoping to get to 220 but the way Rice and Anscombe accelerated took the score up to 240 at the end. Will played beautifully for his 112 and was superbly supported by Ben who got his first adult 50 for the club (well played lads)
Opening bowlers Oscar Windebank (4-54) and Frank Straw (2-22) bowled well without any reward before Grennan (8) was clean bowled by Oscar. Oscar then removed Bridgman (14) caught behind by keeper Will Jameson who was enjoying the consistent bounce from the Heath pitch compared with last week. Rogers (51) scored well at the other end throwing his bat at anything wide of the stumps. Steve Toogood was clean bowled by Chris Russell (1-36). Rogers was joined by Lewis le Clerq (51) and the pair got away with 3 chances before finally Chris Wood (2-39) had a catch held at long off to remove Rogers. The 2s aversion to catching the ball seemed to be catching (excuse the pun) with 3 different players dropping catches.
Once Rogers went Shinn (23) joined Le Clerq and although Hambledon were way behind the scoring rate they frustrated Petersfield's bowlers before Le Clerq quickly followed Shinn as the opening bowlers returned to give Petersfield a chance of picking up maximum bowling points. Despite some great keeping and a superb catch from Steve Gibson at gully Petersfield could not get the maximum bowling points as Hambledon finished on 180-9.
Another good win for Petersfield 2s picking up 23 points to keep their place at the top of the league. Onwards and upwards for the 2s.
Men of the match - Will Rice and Ben Anscombe for that 198 run partnership.
Special mentions to Oscar for his 4 wickets and Will Jameson behind the stumps with 3 catches and a stumping (although not given)
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