Parley Dorset XI

Parley 4s vs Christchurch 3s - Saturday 11th May.

Parley 151-9

Christchurch 71 all out

Basking in beautiful sun the Parley 4s arrive at Wareham recreation ground for a home game due to Littledown being unavailable. 

In our team we had no less than 6 debutantes.

Pete Ellis and kieran Humpfrey were the adult debutants and 4 of our u13s which were Harry franks , Jake Courtiour ,Kier Humpfrey and Harry Coole and father and son combinations of Kieran and Kier Humpfrey and Rob and Harry franks. Great to see.

Winning the toss (yes Rob Franks actually won a toss) and we decide to have a bat.

Opening up were Chris smith and Steve Roe.

We found ourselves in a bit of strife at 23-3 Harry Coole batted sensibly to stop the flow of wickets.

After drinks we had father and son duo of kier and Kieran Humpfrey at the crease who put on a great partnership of 70 odd before we lost both players. ,Kier falling for a fabulous debut knock of 40 and Kieran a patient 28.

Roman Mitchell came in at 8 and with some lusty blows went for a run a ball 25 taking our total to 151-9 from our 40 overs.

We went about defending the total with opening bowlers Roman Mitchell and Rob Lewis keeping things very tight and bowling well.

We got a break thorough from another u13 debutante Harry Franks bowling the Christchurch opener through the gate, then Harry picked up his second wicket of the match with a very sharp caught and bowled.

Kieran Humpfrey bowled some lovely left arm swing and was very economical and put the pressure on the batters.

After drinks adult debutante Pete Ellis bowled superbly getting a couple of wickets and Rob franks chipped in with 3 wickets of his own.The final wicket fell to another u13 debutante Harry Coole to wrap up the win for Parley.

A special mention to Jake Courtiour who took a smart catch off the skippers bowling! And to Steve Roe for some great stuff behind the stumps 

The most pleasing thing about the whole day was seeing so many youth players across both parley and Christchurch teams with 8 out of the 22 players all u16.

Highlights- 

Kier humpfrey 40

Kieran Humpfrey 28

Roman Mitchell 25

Chris smith 20 

Rob franks 6-3-11-3

Pete Ellis 5-2-3-2

Harry franks 5-1-14-2 

A massive well done to all players for a throughly enjoyable game and a brilliant win.

Thanks must also go to Wareham cricket club for allowing us to use their ground at short notice to ensure the game was able to go ahead.

Next week we travel to Swanage in what will be another enjoyable encounter.