Rowner U15s v Purbrook U15s 17 May 2002

Mass Suicide Hampers Purbrook

Purbrook U15s travelled to Rowner Green on Friday to take on Rowner, the only team who Purbrook managed to beat in 2001. On that occasion there didn't seem to be anyone over 4ft high in the Rowner XI. This year it was a different story as they all seemed large and competent.

Rowner batted first and Purbrook applied some good early pressure through Sam Pearce (4-0-19-1) and Sean Figgins (4-2-6-1). This limited Rowner to 33 for 1 off the first ten overs.

Rowner fought back through Stevens (23), Corbin (24) and Ingram (24) to finish on 100 for 3. Tom Jones (4-1-22-1), Simon Bennett (4-0-25-0) and Hari Haran (4-1-22-1) applied the brakes with varying success. Ben Thomas took a good stumping to remove Corbin.

Purbrook started confidently and were cruising to victory at 60 for 2 off 10 overs. They then got complacent. Sean Figgins (20) played across a yorker from Jeffcoat and got bowled. Tom Jones (2) smacked a full toss straight up into the air and got caught. Sam Pearce (36) lobbed a short ball from Jeffcoat gently back to the bowler. Ben Thomas was clean bowled by Ingram for 0 and Simon Bennett sliced his first ball into the air to get caught (how unusual!).

At 69 for 5 off 13 overs, the match had taken a turn for the worse from Purbrook's point of view. Rowner, on the other hand, had cheered up.

Hari Haran was left to marshall an inexperienced tail, but Purbrook couldn't make much progress after that. He was last out in the 19th over with the score on 77.

Purbrook: Sean Figgins, Sam Pearce, Tom Jones, Ben Thomas, Hari Haran, Simon Bennett, Ian Budd, Jared Carter, Mark Higginbottom, Jack Hamson, Lloyd Griffiths.