Worthing (198 for 7 after 42 overs) beat Horsham (178 All Out) by 20 runs
A tightly fought game saw Worthing achieve their 3rd win of the week with another good all round team performance with everyone playing their part. Having lost the toss, Worthing were invited to bat and true to form, Worthing's openers, Harry Dunn and Bradley Lewis built a steady opening partnership against some good bowling. Two quick wickets in the 12th over brought Harvey von Biel to the crease as he set about scoring possibly his best innings for the club. His 51 in as many balls got Worthing's innings back on track aided and abetted with by Robbie Anderson (14) and Ollie Carpenter (12) who both played good supporting roles. When Nick Ballamy came out to bat at the fall of the 5th wicket, Worthing's score was 131 in the 31st over. By the end of the innings he had scored 44, including 8 boundaries, and taken Worthing's score to a decisive 198.
Horsham got off to a flyer intending to make short work of Worthing's total. By the 10th over the score had reached 74 albeit for the loss of two wickets, as Horsham's batsmen set about Worthing's seamers. And so it was to be that once again the spinners would hold sway. The trio of Mason Crane, James Allen and Harry Dunn all made life difficult on a turning pitch and today it would be the turn of Harry to take the headlines with a match winning spell of 5 for 24. Some of the fielding is worthy of note, particularly Martyn Swift's sharp catch at mid-wicket, Harvey von Biel's well judged catch at deep square and again Nick Ballamy's impressive work behind the stumps including two stumpings. Some of it was less so, with at least 7 chances going down and a number of glaring mis-fields all of which added to the tension as Horsham continued the run chase. For a while their No.9, Nick Klein, looked as though he might get them there but as he ran out of partner's so did his patience as he made one charge down the pitch too many. A good match to watch but Worthing will need to work on their fielding if they are to get to the very top.
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