HYTHE'S KIERAN CHALMERS STARS FOR REP SIDE

As the colts league season draws to a close the New Forest District Side begin their summer of youth festivals. Once again Hythe are represented by Under 13 star Kieran Chalmers.

On Sunday the New Forest District played Winchester District in a friendly at St Cross Cricket Club near Winchester.The game was played over 32 overs a side and Winchester batted first mading 142 for 8.  With Winchester already 3 down Kieran came onto bowl.

After 3 overs and 4 balls of a 4 over spell Kieran was wicket-less despite beating the Winchester batsmen a number of times and only conceding 9 runs in the process. However, 2 clean bowled wickets in 2 balls turned a good tight spell into something more special.   Kieran was then given one of the last couple of overs to see if he could land the hatrick delivery. Unfortunately it wasn't to be and the Winchester batsmen glanced it off his legs for 4. He repeated the shot again a couple of deliveries later straddled by a couple of wides from Kieran which must have been sighters presumably as he then clean bowled his 3rd wicket of the match. That left Kieran with figures of 5 overs for 19 runs with 3 wickets taken an impressive return from a player who plays his club cricket for one of the minnows.

New Forest inning got off to an extremely cautious start and at half way we were way off the pace at only 42 for 2! That meant we needed 101 runs from the second half of our innings which was a tall ask. However, the New Forest made a good fist of it only falling short by 11 runs @ 131 for 7. Sadly Kieran batting down at 10 never got a chance to shine with the bat but his bowling had stamped his name in the side.

Earlier this season New Forest entertained Dorset B at Woodside Park in Lymington. New Forest won that match fairly convincingly with Kieran bowling impressice figures again of 4 overs for 9 runs with 1 wicket. 

Next game is a friendly against South Wiltshire in Salisbury on Sunday 27th July followed by 3-45 over matches against the other Hampshire districts to be played at New Milton starting on Monday 28th July...........if selected said dad but how can they leave him out !!

Hythe Under 15 star Matt Young has also been selected for Under 15 squad in their summer festivals,

The Club wishes both guys a great summer of cricket