U13 Abberley 9.5 Beaudesert 24

Naomi, as captain for the season, won the toss and put Beaudesert in to bat. Abberley started off a bit rusty and a couple of misfields, and a lack of match practice, allowed the oppostion to get off to a great start. As the girls relaxed the bowler (Claire), backstop (Naomi) and first post triangle (Annie) started to get people out, but after 20 minutes they had run up a big total of 15.5 rounders. Abberley confidently started to bat and Covi hit some beautiful rounders, but the opposition was just too strong and we were all out for 6.5.

The second half of the game was limited balls and each team got 18 balls to score as much as possible, Beaudesert scored 8.5 with five of them being full rounders and in reply Abberley scored 3, with half of those scored by Jenny. So the final score was 24 to the visitors and 9.5 to Abberley. A disappointing start to the season but some good performances from Natasha, Annie, Covi, Naomi and Julia.