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U14 Indoor Sixes - Week Eight

BELHUS 1 106-3
ORSETT 97 all out

A superb innings of 41 from Orsett's Laura Kavanagh brought her team to within nine runs of reaching an unlikely target set by an on-form Belhus team at Grays School on Friday evening. Kavanagh struck three fours and two sixes in a valiant effort to help Orsett recover from an almost impossible situation. After seven overs, Orsett had reached 38-2, with George Pavitt run out, without scoring, at the bowlers end after good work by Ben Palmer at mid-off. Pavitt's replacement, Glen Harris, was then bowled by Palmer which enabled the live-wire Belhus seamer to complete a wicket-maiden. However, Orsett managed to score 17 runs from the eighth over, 14 from the ninth and 13 from the tenth over to set up an exciting finish as 25 runs were required from the final two overs. Billy Winter stepped up to bowl the eleventh over, he then bowled Alex Hardly for one run and completed the over having conceded just seven runs as the brakes were finally applied. This left 18 runs still wanted from the final over bowled by Connor Day. Orsett found it difficult to score runs off the Belhus paceman as Day conceded just eight runs from the final over to finish with 0-18 from three tidy overs to wrap up the victory, albeit by the slender margin of just nine runs, with the excellent Kavanagh eventually being run-out in the frantic run-chase. Palmer finished with 2-20 from three overs and Winter 1-31, also from three. Earlier, Jason Peters made 26 before being caught and bowled by Palmer, while in the Belhus innings, Palmer scored 23, Winter totalled 20 and Laurie Hawkes scored an undefeated 18, a personal best for the indoor sixes. For Orsett, Pavitt finished with 2-25.