Scorecard

Portsmouth & Southsea Cricket Club 1st XI v Rowledge II on Sat 13 May 2017 at 1.00pm
Portsmouth & Southsea Cricket Club Won by 4 wickets

Match report What an exciting game this was despite the fact that at tea, a home win by plenty of wickets looked a formality.
Both Matt and Jake found lots of movement but very little luck in the Spring sunshine. The breakthrough didn't arrive until the 13th over (32-1). Chris took the second in the 21st over (52-2) to set up three overs of carnage from Jono in which he dismissed 4 for 6 bowling over the wicket. Keiron took the seventh with his second delivery but the home side were held up by the biggest partnership of the innings as Martin and Watson added 32 in 12 overs. The spinners took the last three for a meagre 3 runs to leave the home side needing just over two runs per over to win.
Nobody was expecting what happened next as Swan and Taylor reduced P & S to 41 for 6 in the opening 11 overs. I think it's fair to say that not all of the wicket-taking deliveries were particularly good ones.
Everyone knew that Rowledge had to bowl P & S out to win the game as 63 were needed from 39 overs so no pressure from that direction, but the key was not losing wickets. Tom and Jake achieved this with composure and almost faultless judgement. They also played some lovely shots - always off the right deliveries.
The match ended with 25 and a half overs to spare and Rowledge left with a paltry 4 points when perhaps they deserved more.
JT

Rowledge II Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
9w 2b  
for 10 wickets
11
103 (40.4 overs)		     
R Woodliffe ct  Kanavan b Willey 32 65 5 49.23
M Martin b  Benfield 9 36 25.00
R Fulham ct  Kanavan b Turrell 6 27 1 22.22
H Cann b  Willey 7 10 1 70.0
J Swan b  Willey 7 9 1 77.78
O Baker lbw  Dunstan 0 5 0
S Taylor ct  Kanavan b Willey 2 4 50.0
S Martin Not Out  21 45 2 46.67
A Watson ct  & b Dunstan 8 37 1 21.62
J Powell ct  Clements b Saunders 0 4 0
J Slim ct  M Benfield b Dunstan 0 3 0

Portsmouth & Southsea Cricket Club 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Matt Benfield8.0128128.003.50
Jake Peach10.031800.001.80
Chris Turrell5.0216116.003.20
Jonathan Willey7.021343.251.86
Keiron Dunstan7.421535.001.96
Ben Saunders3.0011111.003.67

Portsmouth & Southsea Cricket Club 1st XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
6nb 21w 1lb 
for 6 wickets
28
106		        
Jack Davies ct  Cann b Swan 0 1 0
Steve Clements ct  M Martin b Taylor 0 5 0 1
Matt Benfield ct  Off Swan 12 11 3 109.09 1
Tom Benfield Not Out  41 73 5 1 56.16
Ollie Kanavan b  Swan 0 9 0 3
Robert Evans ct  Cann b Swan 0 8 0
Ben Saunders ct  Baker b Swan 2 6 33.33
Jake Peach Not Out  23 41 2 56.10
Chris Turrell  
Keiron Dunstan   1
Jonathan Willey  

Rowledge II Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Swan 8.022454.803.00
Taylor 5.0122122.004.40
Powell4.002700.006.75
S Martin 3.001000.003.33
M Martin 2.011100.005.50
Baker 2.301100.004.40

  • Umpire :
    MG
  • Scorer :
    JT