U15s Win by 22 runs

We lost the toss and were asked to bat. Adam Bassingthwaighte (45) and Alec Chappell (40) ran well and put on 82 for the first wicket at 8 an over. The loss of Alec to a poor shot from a long hop signalled a slowing of the over rate and a flurry of wickets and it was left to Ben Warman (14) and Morgan Sewell (15) to give us some impetus at the end as we reached 144-8 at the close. This was some way short of what we should have achieved but was a reasonable effort.
This was a long way from our usual bowling performance as a series of short deliveries and lots of wides gave the home side encouragement. An early wicket for Chris Millns was followed by a dangerous 50 partnership which was broken with a good throw from Jack Williams producing a much needed run out. Ben Warman then took a wicket in his first over, a stumping from Basso, but then lost his line and length his next over.
We secured the win thanks to accurate bowling from Morgan (3-0-8-2) and Chappell (3-0-9-0) and two more runouts. George Lyall unlucky again as another catch went down. 19 wides was far too many at this level and made the scores a lot closer than it should have been.