Our U15s continued their league campaign with a visit to Little Shelford on Thursday evening. The hosts were packed full of Cambridgeshire County players and we belied our “underdog” tag eventually just losing out by 17 runs.
We continued our improvement in the field, captain Sam Osborne showed some athletic ground fielding and Dom Longland showed a safe pair of hands to catch a threatening Aubrey (22) in the deep after a booming hit down to him at long-off from the bowling of Cambridge (1-17).
With a tight boundary on one side Shelford’s final score of appeared at the time to not be insurmountable. Sanderson and Osborne set about it in their normal steady fashion. Osbourne (51) timed the ball well and made use of the fast outfield. Sanderson (22) unfortunately departed after being run-out looking to up the scoring rate.
Jacob Vincent (26) came in and found himself in a crucial moment in the match again with the run rate creeping up, he showed real intent and is appearing to benefit from experiences such as these. Oli Tapsell (9), Oli Cambridge (3), Cook (1) and George Wood (12) also tried to get us over the line with a do or die attitude but eventually we fell just short in the final overs, we can be content with our score of 146 and as fate would have it some magic was about to happen the next evening on the Reed Green.
Match report submitted by Richard Barlow.
