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Frocester
Under 15 b’s v Slimbridge Under 15 b’s
On
a warm Thursday evening Frocester under 15b played their first
home game of the season against Slimbridge, with both teams
fielding depleted sides due to school commitments. It seemed
only fair to let Slimbridge borrow a couple of fielders with
only seven of their own players this set the tone for a friendly
but competitive game.
With
the toss won by Frocester we decided to bat first .With both
opening bats missing it was up to M.Glew and P.Old
to step up to the mark against the opening bowlers of
A.Knight and T.Lee . The first four overs past without incident
with both batsmen and bowlers playing themselves in .The
advantage going to slimbridge in the 5th over when
P.Old couldn’t resist trying to hit across the line of a T.Lee
delivery ending with his middle stump being removed for 8 and
Frocester on 21-1 this brought W.Lewis to the crease and with
Frocester needing to push the total on it fell to M.Glew to take
the lead and with opening bowlers seen off the weakened
Slimbridge attack started to leak runs with some strong batting
and sharp running between the wickets this soon saw Frocester
reach 74-1 off 15 overs and with M.Glew retiring two overs
later, on 51 and New batsmen E.Ashton out for 0 off A.Kolinowski.
Frocester
finished their innings on 127-2 with W.Lewis 31 not out and
J.Pritchard 3 not out with T.Lee and A.Kolinowski the pick of
the bowlers with figures of 4-1-1-18 and 4-0-1-38.
In
reply Slimbridge started well with A.Knight hitting four in the
first over. But once again it was Frocester who struck first
with B.Keneflick taking the wicket off Hyam for 2 then followed
up by P.Old claiming Knight for 14 and D.Chapman caught and
bowled for 1 by T. Fisher with Slimbridge stunned on 19-3 off
the first 6 overs .But with a change of bowlers and some fine
rear-guard batting by J. Wagstaff 17, Kolinowski 3 not out and
Parry run out for 8 saw slimbridge finish out the innings on
64-5 falling short by 63 runs.
Both
coaches commented after the game as to how well the boys had
played and to the friendly atmosphere, Bill Church (Slimbridge
coach) also gave a big thank you to the 3 Frocester boys who
fielded for them, B. Keneflick, T. Jacks and
J. Glew.
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