Third game of the season with us looking to remain top of the table. We thought the day started well as we got what we wanted from the toss despite losing it. Three Bridges batting first Greg (3-28) got stuck in to 3 early wickets. First change the skipper (1-28) took the 4th and it was looking like we could have another average chase on its way. But Steve Brown (128) and R.Stewart (39) got their heads down and batted well to get Bridges on top. Jack Westlake (2-27) into the attack and quickly picked up a wicket caught behind by Marc Hinton. Alex Anderson (0-31) bowled well on 5th team debut and deserved a reward but got nothing. James Belton (1-48) back into the attack got a late wicket with Josh Quintais (2-25) bowling well to get us maximum bowling points. Bridges finishing 266-10 from 48.3 overs.
Worthing chase began well with Glenn Harris continuing his good form getting 40. Quintais played well getting his first worthing half century (55). Neil Harris kept the innings going strong with 60 but fell near the end to Brown who continued on from his good performance with the bat taking (4-32). The middle order fell cheaply, and Squires going for a duck chopping on from a ball round the throat putting us in the position we could not go for the win, determined to get maximum batting points and restrict our opponents we got to 200 and kept going for the draw. A great resistance from the strong Worthing tail got us there. Belton 9 from 30 balls, Sam Wookey 9 from 28 balls and Westlake 1 from 14 balls saw us through the last 10 overs to finish 233-9.
Overall a good performance from Worthing, on a very hard and unpredictable outfield against tough opposition in more ways than one, and a result that puts us top of the table on our own as Horsham Trinity also got a draw, but only picking up 11 points to our 15.
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