Petersfield Cricket Club News
A much changed team saw Petersfield 2s side start with 4 Under 16 players at a Sunny and Hot Heath ground on Saturday. A good sign that the youth program at Petersfield CC is alive and well.
Acting Captain Russell won the toss and elected to bat but as has been the case this year the home pitch was not very easy to bat on. Petersfield lost Oscar Windebank, Ben Anscombe and Tom Sherry early on with only Russell finding any form on the slow and inconsistent pitch which the visitors were exploiting with some good, accurate bowling.
Joe Clarke (8) helped to steady things for the second time in 2 weeks but when he fell things were not looking so good at 68 for 5. Russell continued to score but when he lost his wicket LBW to a grubber for 49 with the team on 87 for 5 a low score looked likely. The tail wagged however and Paul Clarke (26) and Ed Milford (13) hit some powerful shots and then Ben Cox (12 not out) worked with the tail enders to take Petersfield to a reasonable 147 for 8 from their 42 overs.
Captain Russell encouraged the team to work hard and put pressure on the opposition which seemed to work with Oscar Windebank (2-12) and Ed Bayliss (2-13) removing both openers for 1st ball ducks. Only Mo Khan played with any fluidity and Old Netley were always in the game whilst he was at the crease.
Acting Captain Russell won the toss and elected to bat but as has been the case this year the home pitch was not very easy to bat on. Petersfield lost Oscar Windebank, Ben Anscombe and Tom Sherry early on with only Russell finding any form on the slow and inconsistent pitch which the visitors were exploiting with some good, accurate bowling.
Joe Clarke (8) helped to steady things for the second time in 2 weeks but when he fell things were not looking so good at 68 for 5. Russell continued to score but when he lost his wicket LBW to a grubber for 49 with the team on 87 for 5 a low score looked likely. The tail wagged however and Paul Clarke (26) and Ed Milford (13) hit some powerful shots and then Ben Cox (12 not out) worked with the tail enders to take Petersfield to a reasonable 147 for 8 from their 42 overs.
Captain Russell encouraged the team to work hard and put pressure on the opposition which seemed to work with Oscar Windebank (2-12) and Ed Bayliss (2-13) removing both openers for 1st ball ducks. Only Mo Khan played with any fluidity and Old Netley were always in the game whilst he was at the crease.
Petersfield turned to the spin of Ben Anscombe (3-22) and Chris Russell (2-16) and wickets continued to fall and eventually Khan hit Anscombe straight to Russell in the covers for a hard fought 59 and Old Netley faded to finish 87 all out.
This was a really hard won victory for the Petersfield second team and leaves them in the top 2 of the division having won 10 and lost 2 games this season with an away trip to leaders Shanklin set for next weekend.
This was a really hard won victory for the Petersfield second team and leaves them in the top 2 of the division having won 10 and lost 2 games this season with an away trip to leaders Shanklin set for next weekend.
