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The victorious Under 13 team pictured after the Final of the Hampshire U13 Club Competition at the Rose Bowl on Sunday 8th July. Click on the thumbnail to see full size picture. Sunday 8th: The final of the Hampshire U13 Club Competition was played at the Hampshire Rose Bowl. Andover won the toss, elected to field and had opener Oliver Knight bowled by Faisal Abbas in the first over. Ben Walker was then joined by Philip Cooper and both played carefully until Cooper was bowled by James Moss for 10, when the score was 30, in the tenth over. Liam Worrow, trying to increase the scoring rate, made a quick 12 before he was run out. Walker retired for a well crafted 30* and Romer finished on 13* in the BAT Sports total of 95 – 6 from 20 overs. The wicket takers were Abbas 2-7, Moss 1-16 and Oliver Williams 1-18. Andover’s openers Williams and Moss made a good start until Moss was well caught by Worrow off the bowling of Walker for 12 in the fourth over. Williams played some superb shots, hitting six fours, before retiring on 31*. The job was left to Abbas 32* and Chris Hadfield 9* to see Andover safely home without the loss of any further wickets and with more than three overs remaining. The Andover U13s, representing Hampshire, now play the U13 Club winners of Middlesex or Berkshire later this month in the ECB U13 Club Championship.
The victorious Under 11 team being presented with the Oliver Cup. Click on the thumbnail to see full size picture. Sunday 1st July: Andover beat Fair Oak in the final of the Winchester District Cricket Clubs Association U11 Oliver Cup last Sunday at Easton & Martyr Worthy CC. The competition is played in an 8 a-side pairs format with both sides starting at 200 runs, scoring additional runs but loosing 5 runs for each wicket. Fair Oak won the toss, elected to field and soon had Andover in trouble with Harry Warren starting with a double wicket maiden. Andover finished on 312 after their 16 overs having lost 3 wickets with Tim Lewis top scoring on 22* well assisted by John Palmer 14*, Ali Cheyne 13*, Fred Kelly 13*, Jonty Hadfield 10* and David Floyd 5*. In what was always likely to be a difficult run chase Andover’s bowling proved too strong on the day and Fair Oak finished on 175 with Jonty Hadfield 4-2, Fred Kelly 4-10, Tim Lewis 3-6, Ali Cheyne 2-15, Luke Catton 1-2 and John Palmer 1-12 taking the wickets with two catches to wicket keeper Jos Clark. |
