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B.A.T.youngsters start new league with dual wins
Mike Vimpany - 7 January 2002
BAT Sports are off to a flying start in the newly formed Hampshire Cricket Board Under-16 Indoor League.
They won both their opening matches at the Rose Bowl, beating Andover by seven runs and Basingstoke & North Hants by nine wickets.
BAT's victory over Andover in some way compensated for their defeat in last summer's Southern Electric Gas Under-15 Trophy final.
Ricky Rawlins (28), Craig Vigar (15) and Gary Cozens (15) guided BAT to 101-5 in 12 overs - a total Andover at one stage appeared to have little prospect of matching.
But although Hampshire YC duo Steve Williams and James Manning were dismissed cheaply, Mark Copplestone (25) continued the fight ... only to be suicidally run out at 94, with an over still remaining.
BAT emerged comfortable winners against Basingstoke, restrictng the May's Bounty club to 87-5 (James Parfitt 22) before Rawlins (26) and Matt Couch (27) set up the five-wicket victory.
Basingstoke's younger age side also lost by five wickets to Andover - a tidy knock by Mitchell Stokes (27) proving in vain as Manning (26 ret) and Williams (21) steered Andover to a comfortable win.
Overall, the standard of cricket played was high - some athletic fielding complementing accurate bowling throughout the first series of Under-16 games in the Rose Bowl Cricket School.
RESULTS:
BAT Sports 101-5 (Rawlings 28, Vigar 15, Cousins 15) Andover 94 (Coppleston 26, Guilfoyle 18, Rawlings 2-10)
Basingstoke & North Hants 87-5 (Parfitt 22) BAT Sports 89-1 (Couch 27, Rawlings 26)
Basingstoke & North Hants 82-1 (Stokes 27, Davis 21) Andover 83-1 (Manning 26, Williams 21, Palmer 15)
NEXT WEEK:
Mudeford, who won the HCB SunBank Under-15 Trophy last summer, take their bow in the competition at the Rose Bowl on Sunday.
Fixtures : 6pm Fair Oak v Mudeford, 7pm Fair Oak v Locks Heath, 8pm Mudeford v Locks Heath.
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