Worthing 114 for 4 after 20.0 overs beat Bognor by 14 runs, (100 all out after 18.5 overs)
Worthing travelled to Bognor for their first U15 league match of the season curtailed to 20 overs per side enforced by the strained efforts of the management team to race across the county during rush hour in a valiant attempt to beat the setting sun. Worthing duly won the toss and elected to bat first. Harry Dunn gave the visitors a positive start, scoring a sprightly 24 before he was out in the 7th over with the score on 38 . Martyn Swift (25) and Robbie Anderson (26) both played steadily forming a good partnership in the core of the innings taking the score towards the 100 mark before they both retired not out as the innings moved towards its conclusion. Ollie Carpenter entered the fray and injected some quick fire hitting including a near 6, straight back over the bowlers head. When Ollie was out for 17 off just 8 balls at the end of the 20th over, Worthing's total had reached a respectable 114.
Martyn Swift's opening spell of 4 overs for 10 runs set the tone as Bognor set about the chase. Always slightly behind the run rate, the key to the match would be in the 2nd half of the innings; could Bognor hold their nerve or would Worthing's fielding crumble under the mounting pressure. In the end it would be Worthing's bowlers who would prevail; Harry Dunn's match turning 5 wickets for 15 proving decisive as Bognor's lower order fell away. Aaron Tugnutt with the gloves did particularly well once more claiming 4 stumpings including that of Bognor's only retirement, Ollie Adams, who returned at the fall of the 9th wicket only to dash it all away as he charged down the pitch in the fading light. Despite some occasional lapses in the field by Worthing, this was a well won victory against two evenly matched sides for which the boys should be congratulated.
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