WESTINGHOUSE vice-captain Christian Fry is savouring a winning start to the
season after his team edged out Hinton Charterhouse away on Saturday.
The club have not started the Wiltshire Division campaign well in recent
seasons and Fry was delighted to begin positively.
Westinghouse were put into bat and openers Robbie Penfold and Chris Ferris
racked up 147 between them, and the away side eventually finished on 192.
Hinton's top order were solid rather than spectacular but Andrew Fussell
kept them in contention with a knock of 77.
The lower order struggled to make runs and Westinghouse were fairly
comfortable with the last two overs in sight, as their opponents fell 13
runs short of the target.
Fry said: "It was quite an exciting game and it's the first time I can
remember we've won a game in the first half of the season.
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"It was a good start. To get off to a win was a big improvement on the last
few seasons.
"Jon Cleverly was his usual self, he carried on from last season and was
bang-on right from the start.
"The young lad Robbie Penfold was promoted up the batting order and scored
75 so that was a brilliant start for him, and Chris Ferris looks like he's
back to some of his old form."
Although Westinghouse were fairly comfortable at the end, Fry admitted his
side had not always been certain of victory.
Fry said: "Off the first 25 overs they had scored about 60 so that left them
130 to get off 20 overs.
"There was a sticky time when we thought they might get it and panic
started to set in but we got over it.
"We were on top in the last three overs and there was no doubt we were going
to win."
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