Petersfield 2s down to 2nd in the league

Salthill CC - Salthill Cricket Club Vs Petersfield CC - 2nd XI

Fixture Details

Type :	League: Hampshire Cricket League Regional Division 2 South - 2015	Date :	Saturday 4th July 2015
Toss :	Petersfield CC - 2nd XI won the toss and elected to bat	Start Time :	14:00
Ground :	The Fishbourne Centre	Rules Type :	Standard

Highlights :

A Court 48 Will Rice 58 Ben Anscombe 51 Liam Charles 3-43

Result Summary

Result :    Salthill CC - Salthill Cricket Club - Won by 5 wickets

Petersfield 2s lost their unbeaten record to Salthill in West Sussex today.

The day had started well with Captain Richard Stephens winning the toss and deciding to bat first with Will Rice (58) and Toby Austin (32) putting on 84 for the first wicket at 7 an over with some crisp and well timed shots which flew away on a very fast outfield (anything beating the fielder was a boundary). Will Rice then hit the ball to mid on and went for the single but was run out as the fielder hit the stumps directly leaving Will just short of his ground.

Ben Anscombe (51) fresh from his first 50 for the club last week, joined Toby in the middle. The pair put on 13 before Steve King (1 for 38) tooking a stunning one handed return catch. The scoring rate had slowed but Field were still going at a good rate. Ben and Will Jameson (22) added 38 before Will was adjudged LBW to Ashley Court (1 for 49).

Omar Iqbal (16) and Ben Anscombe took the total along to 194 before a mini collapse as the lower order tried to add vital runs to the total all going at better than a run a ball but the last 5 wickets fell for 22 to leave Field on 216, which in hindsight was 30 or so runs short bearing in  mind the very very fast outfield.

Petersfield got off to the perfect start with Oscar Windebank (1-49) removing A Wallgrove with the 4th delivery of the innings as he got one to jag back at the batsmen to remove his off stump. Ashley Court (48) and S Richardson (13) then pushed the score along to 76 punishing anything short and wide. The pair scoring at a very similar rate to Petersfields. Liam Charles (3-43) then came and looked to have turned the game in Fields favour removing Court and Richardson in 2 overs.

Unlike Field. Salthill kept the run rate very high continuing to punish anything wayward from the Field bowlers. Liam then removed L Carter (23) to rekindle Field's hopes of forcing a win but this did not last long as Salthill batsmen all continued to bat well despite some tidy overs from Will Rice (0-22) and Richard Stephens (1-50). Richard removed P Elsbury (33) but it was not enough to save Field as J Holder (37 not out) and P Fisk (34 not out) saw Salthill comfortably home with 5 overs to spare.

Field drop down to 2nd and hopefully they will look to bounce back away at Sarisbury next week to keep their promotion drive going.

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