Hertfordshire U15s V Huntingdonshire U15s

Hertfordshire U15s V Huntingdonshire U15s

Haileybury College 5^th July 09

Huntingdonshire won the toss and elected to bat on what looked like a road of a track in the fantastic surroundings of Haileybury College. Again Hunts started badly with Dan Robinson departing 4^th ball of Sayf Ali Khan first over. With a run up twice the length of a cricket track, Ali Khan was Herts key bowler he bowled with good pace and intelligence taking 2 for 11 in his opening spell. Hunts were reduced to 49 for 4 in the 23^rd over with some good tight bowling by Herts. Captain Joe Dawborn and the new vice-captain Dan Malem (in the absence of Callum Hale - out injured) took the attack to Herts batting with good intelligence they managed to push the score past the 100 mark. Unfortunatley the lunch break came at the wrong time, the momentum which Hunts had built up was lost with the loss of the Dan Malem (39) and Joe Dawborn (21) immediately after the break. At 110 for 6 and 39 overs gone, it was “Prime Time” - Batting for 45 balls and with good support from James Trafford (23) and Jack Skidmore (11*), Jack Prime (18) and his partners saw Hunts reach a respectable total of 175 for 9 in 57 overs.

Hunts got off to a great start the opening bowlers each bagging a wickets and with Mr Prime joining in with a wicket maiden in his first over Herts were 23 for 3 and the target of 175 looked a long way off. Prime continued to bowl well taking 3 for 39 in his 14 overs but the pick of the bowlers was Dan Malem, who finished with figures of 3 for 17 in 11 overs as Herts just held on for a draw. (Herts 132 for 8).

In the absence of our professional scorer Mr Lowin can I thank Ian Tradfford an Ray Dawborn for helping out on the day, Ray I am sure you will agree Mr Lowin’s skills were sorely missed !!!

Well done again to all the boys, great team spirit, bit unlucky not to win! but we are top of the table, who would have taken bets on that!!!

Huntingdonshire Batting

D Robinson ct A Chalker b Sayf Ali Khan 2

L Grimoldby b C Emerton 20

D Bandaranaike ct N Pancharatnam b Sayf Ali Khan 12

B Curtis b L Mitchell 6

J Dawborn ct N Pancharatnam b Sayf Ali Khan 21

D Malem ct Sayf Ali Khan b L Mitchell 39

R Sayer ct C Emmerton b b Sayf Ali Khan 8

J Prime st N Pancharatnam b K Martin 18

J Trafford ct R Toms b J C Emerton 23

J Skidmore not out 11

A Magee not out 0

Extras 15

Total 175 for 9 in 57 overs

Hertfordshire Bowling

S Ali Khan 9O 3M 24R 4W

J Scott 9O 6O 1M 30R 0W

H Morecroft 6O 2M 15R 0W

L Mitchell 20O 3M 51R 2W

C Emmerton 8O 3M 19R 2W

K Martin 8O 1M 31R 1W

Hertfordshire Batting

B Mills ct R Sayer b J Prime 40

Tej Malde b J Dawborn 1

R Toms ct J Dawborn b J Trafford 3

A Chalker ct D Malem b J Prime 5

N Pancharatnam ct J Prime b D Malem 41

J Scott ct J Prime b D Malem 6

C Emerton b D Malem 7

J Morecroft not out 4

H Morecroft ct A Magee b J Prime 6

K Martin not out 0

Extras 19

Total 132 for 8 in 48 overs

Huntingdonshire Bowling

J Dawborn 7O 1M 12R 1W

J Trafford 5O 0M 9R 1W

J Skidmore 5O 0M 16R 0W

J Prime 14O 3M 39R 3W

D Bandaranaike 4O 0M 14R 0W

D Malem 11O 3M 17R 3W

R Sayer 2O 0M 13R 0W