Under 12 SJCF Report 2011

Nick Oxley(c)
Jakob Heryet
Dan White
Sam Moss
Robson Piper
Tom Armstrong
Josh Wood (w/k)
Karl Sengebusch
Dan Turner
Jack Harrison
Tristan Parfitt
Harry Page
Sherri Shehram
Liam Davies
Alex Hinchcliff.
On the first day of the under 12 festival, Worthing went to Brighton and Hove knowing they would have a difficult game as they have never beaten Brighton & Hove. Nick won the toss, as he did everyday of the festival week, and chose to bowl. Sam Moss and Robson Piper opened the bowling with the first wicket being picked up by Sam with just his fifth ball.
Nick Oxley picked up two key wickets with two spectacular throws for run outs. Dan White, Jakob Heryet and Nick came on and also bowled well. Dan picked up two wickets in two balls including there number 4 batsman who had eluded all bowlers since over 2 with a very good stumping by stand in wicket keeper Josh Wood. Dan finished with figures of seven overs, thirteen runs and four wickets. Brighton and Hove were bowled out for 98 in 23.2 overs; a very nice start for Worthing.
After tea, we went into bat feeling confident that 98 was not a big score to chase with 46 overs to do it in. Unfortunately, we were 3 wickets down by the fourth over with just 7 runs on the board.
When Jakob came to the crease to join Nick the runs started to come and it looked, for a while, like we were going to turn it round. But then Nick tapped the ball up to a fielder and was caught, scoring just 12 runs. Jakob worked hard and even managed to hit a 6 but his wicket fell on 24 runs. Only Dan White managed double figures as the rest of the tail fell, leaving Worthing all out on 71 and the worst possible start to the week.
Brighton and Hove won by 27 runs.

Next day, the boys went all the way to Three Bridges where Nick put the opposition into bat. They started well but again Sam was too good for them, taking their first wicket with the help of a confident catch from Karl Sengebusch. The wicket looked to be favouring the batsman and it took a very fine throw from Tom Armstrong to run out one of Three Bridges' county players.
Rob bowled a very good five over spell, taking two wickets for 17 runs, as did Nick, getting two wickets for 14 runs. Worthing's fielding was a bit up and down on the day but the stand out fielder was Karl, with nothing getting past him.  Three Bridges batted for 37 overs and got 139 runs for 6 wickets.
Worthing went into bat, not looking as confident as the previous day. Our first four batsmen found runs were hard to come by and by the 12th over we were on just 25 runs with 4 wickets down. Then on came Jakob Heryet, who batted beautifully, ably supported by Sam Moss . They put on 63 runs together before Sam was caught on 10.
Dan Turner came on to bat playing another good supporting role to help Jakob get to 50 from 59 balls. Dan scored the winning runs, finishing on 10 not out and Jakob finished on 63 not out from 68 balls. Worthing won by 5 wickets.

Day four brought Steyning to the Manor Ground where Nick decided we should bat first and looking for maximum points, he opened with Dan White and the in-form batsman Jakob.
Jakob did not hang about, scoring his 50 in the first 45 minutes from 32 balls. Jakob's wicket fell on the first ball after drinks for 57. Worthing's boys batted well with Dan White scoring 11, Sherri Shehram 21, Sam Moss 22, Jack Harrison 10 and Alex Hinchcliff 10. They were all out on 161 runs from 31.2 overs.
Worthing were again, very good in the field and our bowlers were all on good form with a wicket each for Sam, Rob and Nick and two for Jakob. Dan White came on in the 17th over bowling his loopy leg spin; he finished off Steyning taking their last five wickets in 3.1 overs. He finished with figures of 5 runs and 5 wickets. Worthing won by 87 runs.

The last day of the festival brought Roffey to the Manor Ground and Worthing once again batted first.
We opened the batting with Dan White and Karl Sengebusch who started steadily, seeing off the Roffey openers. Karl was eventually caught in the 16th over after a partnership of 51. Dan continued to bat steadily; Sherri came and went for 16 runs off 16 balls. Dan eventually hit a ball in the air and was caught on 34 from 73 balls. Jakob worked hard for his runs and with Sam, put on a very good partnership of 46 before the overs were up. Jakob finished on 43 not out and Sam on 16 not out, putting Worthing on 152-4.
Roffey went in to bat and started well but it was again Sam who took the first wicket in his second over. The second wicket did not fall until the 13th over when Roffey were already on 77 runs. Nick bowled a lovely spell, taking 3 wickets for 12 runs off 7 overs. This slowed Roffey right up, along with some very good and enthusiastic fielding, especially from Sam, Tom and Karl and Josh behind the wicket. Dan was having no luck with the ball so Nick brought back openers Sam and Jake. The Roffey middle order and tail had no answer for their brilliant quick bowling, allowing Jakob to finish with figures of 2 wickets for 19 runs. Sam was the star bowler though, taking 5 wickets from 6.4 overs hitting the stumps every time. Worthing won by 36 runs.
Unfortunately one loss and three wins was not good enough to get us to the final. Congratulations to Jakob for his two 50s and also to Dan White and Sam Moss for their 5 wicket hauls. Thankyou to all the parents who came to support us and a huge thank you to Hayley and Julie for our lovely teas.