Under 16s start with indoor season win over Havant Cc

Hoping to avoid a repeat of the opening defeat of the summer, Petersfield were ruthless in an 80 run win over Havant.

Broadhurst (38) and Anscombe (39) gave a masterclass in indoor batting, milking the decent Havant attack for three after three without a single pot-shot at the back wall. 

With the openers both retired by the end of the fifth over, Turk (5) and Campbell (4) looked to keep the score moving but we're both cleverly caught off the netting by C. Dean in Havant's best over. 

Clarke (17) and Milford (22) came together at 76/2 and pushed on relentlessly in the middle overs, with Milford leaning into three straight 4s before playing around a straight one.

With Clarke the third batter to fall to a Dean catch off the side-netting, the returning Broadhurst and Anscombe maintained the momentum. Broadhurst was run out in the last over, but Anscombe held his end, and continued the high scoring rate until he too was run out off the last ball of the innings.

Petersfield 159/6 (12 overs).

Facing a daunting total, Havant were immediately pinned back by Turk (2 overs, 10/0) with some rapid dot-ball bowling. 

Campbell (2 overs, 29/0) matched Turk for pace and aggression but fell victim to some tight wide calls. Sharp fielding saw Udy (9) run out in the 4th over. 

Clarke (2.4 overs, 18/2) and Anscombe (2 overs, 18/1) kept the shackles on while F. Steel (27) valiantly attempted to hold the Havant innings together. 

Petersfield were sensing blood, though, and a lightning, diving deflection onto the non-striker's stumps by Clarke off his own bowling saw C. Dean (0) run out. (After the game in a show of hands of those who thought it was deliberate, Clarke lost the vote 5-1). 

Campbell embodied the urgency of the Petersfield fielding when he picked up and threw, giving L. Dean (0) no chance of regaining safety after setting off for an unlikely run. 

An entertaining caught-and-bowled saw Anscombe make an excellent one-handed parry away to his right before an interminable series of juggles ended with him finally grasping the ball somewhere around extra cover, M. Carter (1) being the eventual victim. 

F. Steel returned to be confidently snaffled at point by Turk, and Clarke trapped D. Russell (13) lbw off the next ball to seal the win, and leave himself on a hat-trick for the next game.

Broadhurst showed his growing maturity as a skipper with a thoughtful and proactive captaincy. The bold placement of three fielders on the off-side in the opening overs showed great imagination and a well-placed confidence in his bowlers.

Havant 79/6 (8.4 overs).

With more to come from Petersfield in both the batting and bowling departments, this early win bodes very well for an excellent indoor season. Well done lads!

Paul Clarke, 27/9/2015.

Last game of the season so close and yet so far

Well the last game of the season has been played and yet again we were beaten by one guy who was too good to be playing on a Sunday (story of the whole season)

Some notable performances today despite the defeat with James Stratford-Tuke getting 3-26 (including the lad who got 81) off 7 overs. Dan May 3-23 off 7 including 2 in 2 balls and Adam Childs picking up 3 wickets for 4 runs of 1.4 overs. We battled back from 122-1 to 162 all out as the Sunday lads kept going brilliantly despite the onslaught from a player who plays Saturday 3 levels above our 1s, who by the way was out plumb off Nigel Straws 2 ball as the ball would have removed middle and middle with a bit of middle to boot.

We then move on to the batting which started well with Oscar Windebank knocking 22 off 10 balls to put on 31 for the first wicket. Unfortunately we then had the issue with the same player taking 4-4 off 6 overs as he took advantage of the sun being directly behind his arm as he removed John Childs, Tom Stratford-Tuke, John Windebank and James Stratford-Tuke leaving Petersfield 5 down for 55.

The below picture accurately describes the issue ;-)

Some very stubborn resistance from the lower order got The Sunday side up to 121 with skipper Dave Squires scoring his highest ever score 42 with a pitch proving harder and harder to bat on.

Apart from the sun controversy and the one player this was very close contest despite the 41 run defeat.

Thanks to everyone that has played for me this season it has been a pleasure to play with you and to captain you all

SCORECARD - http://petersfield.play-cricket.com/website/results/2573628

Colts Presentation and Fun day details

Dear All

I am pleased to be able to confirm the arrangements for the final 2 colts cricket events of the summer. I hope everyone had a really enjoyable time training and playing for the club and to celebrate our summer of cricket we now have the presentation evening and the colts fun day coming up.

Presentation Evening

The presentation evening is on Friday 4th Sept at Petersfield Rugby Club. As with last year we are splitting the event in two but with less of a gap between the 2 sessions.

The Girls, the Under 7s and Under 9s will be at 6pm

The Under 11s, Under 13s, Under 15s and the indoor teams will be at 7:15pm

(the presentations for the U19s will be at the senior event the week after)

It would be really good if we could get a good turnout and it would be helpful if you could let your coaches know whether you and the colts are attending or not (please can U11s let me know).

Fun-day

The colts fun-day is taking place on Saturday 5th September at the Heath Cricket Ground. This is always a really good day and gives a chance for the parents to pit their skills against the colts (if I use my very selective memory I can't remember the colts beating the parents in any of the matches). The bar and BBQ should be running and it's good fun. Please let your coach know whether your child will be attending. Coaches will also be looking for parents to play in the game (any standard will do) and if you really don't want to play they will also want a volunteer or two to help run the BBQ. The approximate timings are as below - please be ready to play at the allotted time (again could U11s please let me know)

Girls – 9:15-11:00

U7 – 11:15-12:15

U9 – 12:30-2:00

U11 – 2:15-3:45

U13 – 4:00 -6:00

There is no U15 / U17 game this year because the U15s are playing their league title decider at Portsmouth & Southsea.

Thanks to everyone for their support this year and I hope you have enjoyed the season. The coaches now have a few months off but we are making plans for the indoor nets which will be starting in January. If anyone would like to get involved next year (e.g. helping with coaching, scoring or managing a team please do let me know

Thanks

Paddy May