Petersfield II v Old Basing III: OLD BASING won a crucial toss and asked Petersfield to bat first at the Heath.

Old Basing’s bowlers made scoring difficult for the Petersfield batters.

Chris Wood (12) and James Longland (10) rebuilt after Dave Squires went for a duck, but the recovery did not last long as J Longland mistimed a drive to cover.

J Longland’s father David Longland came and went for a duck shouldering arms to a ball from Gaurav Wadhavan (1-8) that turned to take out his off stump. Wood then played on trying to cut Anup Adhikary (1-16) to leave Petersfield reeling on 31-4.

Mark Butcher (10) and Richard Stephens (19) added some runs in the middle order, but when they both fell the score was 75-6.

With scoring still proving difficult, the lower order managed to bat the overs out with Oscar Windebank (26), Steve Gibson (10 not out) and Harvey Baker (eight not out) taking Petersfield to 113-8.

Old Basing took advantage of the now dried out pitch as the sun beat down on a glorious afternoon.

Petersfield looked for early wickets to put the pressure on Old Basing.

Oscar Windebank (1-27) bowled keeper Sid Sengupta for five with the score on 23, but the ball was coming on to the bat nicely for the Old Basing batters off the pitch.

Jack Butcher (1-24) clean bowled Kannan Kumara (45) but he had pushed the score to 77-2.

Dan Jackson (13) was bowled by Ed Bayliss (1-9) but Old Basing knocked the runs off without further alarm in the 27th over.