Henley Vs Harpsden

Henley won the toss and elected to bat first on what looked like a flat pitch on Sunday, however the Henley batsmen struggled early on with both Christian Whittaker and Will Stevens picking up wickets. In their opening spells. This tight opening was supported well by both Miles Hodgkiss and Horatio Cary, who found just enough movement to trouble the batsmen.

The Henley ship was well steadied by Mark Thomas but when he fell to the returning Stevens Henley looked in deep trouble. Some late hitting by Neville gave Henley a chance having posted 166, but on a flat track with a quick outfield it looked a little short of par.

However much like their Henley counterparts the Harpsden openers struggled with the movement through the air that the bowlers achieve and did well to survive the opening salvo. Having grown accustom to the bowling both Grimmer and Broome struck a n umber of boundaries in a fluent opening stand. However as is often the case one wicket lead to another as both found themselves sat down within and over of each other.

The run rate was maintained by Norton and Nugent who took Harpsden to the brink of victory with some well placed shots. But it was left to Fisher to hit the wining runs and take Harpsden to a 5 wicket win.