Scorecard

Portsmouth & Southsea Cricket Club 1st XI v Waterlooville on Sat 24 Apr 2021 at TBC
Portsmouth & Southsea Cricket Club Won by 28 runs

Match report Our friends from Waterlooville were greeted by bright sunshine, a stiff breeze and a greenish pitch and on winning the toss, decided to bowl first. They were rewarded by plenty of movement and three early wickets, costing 30 runs in 11 overs. For the next 68 minutes they suffered as Alex, with stoic support from Chris, fell just short of a century, in a partnership of 120. This put a different complexion on the game. Both were out with the addition of only nine runs. Dean joined Umar with ten overs remaining and despite a slowish start, they added 67. Dean was caught in the deep off the last ball of the innings.
The visitors were required to score at more than five runs per over and for the first 12 overs they did that. However, four wickets were lost in so doing. Matt, making a welcome return to bowling was on a hat trick before injury curtailed his spell. Verma and Hudson made 31 in nine overs but with ten overs left, the score stood at 144 for 7. The home side were taken by surprise by a spirited stand of 50 between Pearce and Birch in just six overs, putting their side back in the game with a chance. When Birch was run out, 33 were needed from four overs, but the return of the opening bowlers provided too difficult a problem.
Plenty of positives could be taken from this match by both teams, with Saturday’s first Southern League match looming on the near horizon.

JT

Portsmouth & Southsea Cricket Club 1st XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
20w 4b 3lb 
for 6 wickets
27
226		        
Matt Benfield ct Taylor b Hudson 1 13 7.69
Jack Davies lbw Jackson 18 30 1 1 60.0
Ollie Kanavan ct Taylor b Hudson 2 14 14.29
Chris Bollom b Reynolds 23 49 46.94 1
Alex Davidson ct & b Reynolds 94 60 11 6 156.67 1 1
Umar Khyam Malik Not Out  29 43 3 67.44
Dean Lee ct Reynolds b Jackson 32 29 3 110.34 1
Ben Saunders   1
Jake Peach  
Jonathan Willey   1
Keiron Dunstan  

Waterlooville Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Silva6.002200.003.67
Hudson 5.03522.501.00
Jackson 7.0042221.006.00
Birch0.30700.0014.00
Shephard 0.30400.008.00
Parker 3.002300.007.67
Pearce5.004300.008.60
Reynolds 8.0141220.505.13
Knight5.003200.006.40

Waterlooville Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
1nb 21w 2b 5lb 
for 10 wickets
29
198 (37.2 overs)		     
A Reynolds lbw Willey 2 7 28.57
A Shephard ct Lee b Benfield 34 36 6 94.44
C Taylor ct Davidson b Willey 6 12 1 50.0
N Verma ct Willey b Saunders 17 37 2 45.95
T Jackson b Benfield 0 1 0
J Hudson ct & b Saunders 22 46 2 47.83
A Silva b Willey 27 26 3 103.85
J Pearce b Peach 46 37 6 124.32
D Birch run out (Bollom) 12 18 66.67
H Knight run out (Davidson) 3 3 100
C Parker Not Out  0 2 0

Portsmouth & Southsea Cricket Club 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Jake Peach8.0044144.005.50
Jonathan Willey7.2036312.004.91
Ben Saunders8.0034217.004.25
Matt Benfield4.011427.003.50
Keiron Dunstan8.004500.005.63
Umar Khyam Malik2.001800.009.00