'˜Poor' day with the bat costs Steyning

Steyning suffered a 119-run defeat to home rivals Portslade in Division 3 on Saturday as they suffered a '˜poor' day with the bat.
By The Newsroom
Published 19th May 2016, 11:30 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 20:59 BST

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Portslade won the toss and chose to bat, with Joel Crook (67), Steven Case (48) and Glover (25*) helping their side reach 216-6 from their 53 overs.

Steyning found it tough going with the ball but Toby Glover took 3-52 for them.

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Alex Smith ripped through the home side’s top order taking three wickets, before Paul Glover finished things off with figures of 5-10 as Steyning were skittled out for 97 in reply.

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Smith dismissed the Steyning top three of Chris Barnett (13), Hywel Jones (nought) and Gary Hunt (five) to leave them struggling at 33-3. Oliver Collins struck 38 but that was as good as it got for Steyning, who failed to made triple figures in their chase.

Steyning stand-in skipper Jones said: “Our matches with Portslade are usually close but this one wasn’t.

“I felt we were on top for the first quarter but then they took control.

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“Some quickfire late runs helped them boost their total and we were poor with the bat.”

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