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There are games when you play badly and win and there are those when you play well and don't win;this was a game when PHCC had an opportunity to register victory but like Devon Loch fell at the last when there didn't seem anything to stop them !
Fielding first, PHCC exerted pressure on their opponents (Stonebridge Spitfires) through superb bowling by Dave Crowe and Keith Reader. At the halfway point, Spitfires had been contained to 35 with 4 wickets down. Although they managed to total 91 thanks to some late order big hitting, even the change bowlers of Gilchrist and Jackson did a pretty good job.
Although PHCC lost Hearn early on, Gardiner, Crowe and Jackson all made enough to suggest that a win was the only outcome but then the stutter - from being 56 and 2 wickets down, the rest of the team could only add a further 17 runs to give Spitfires their deserved victory.
It's at times like this you have to question the leadership of the team and luckily enough Skipper Dawson is scheduled to return from injury and try to raise this team from its current depths.
Please read the newly added team history.
Team:Bandeen, Hearn, Jackson, Reader, Reader, Dawson, Gardiner, Cawthra, Tipping, Gilchrist, Crowe.
Next game Tuesday 25 May Heaton Medicals
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