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Forest Row's second team recorded a comfortable 93 run win over Streat II on Saturday, in the Sally Miller Plate knock-out competition.

Row won the toss elected to bat, and got off to a bad start losing Richard Woodward (0) in the second over. However, despite the early wicket Streat struggled to bowl straight against a firm southerly wind, and Mr Wides with 30 in the first 11 overs helped the scoreboard along early on. Opener Graham Rowe carried his bat for 84, due reward for patience and playing every ball on its merits. His partnerships of 42 with Phil Rowe (8), 22 with Simon Trench (3) and 19 with Mick Humphrey (9) looked to have set Row on their way to a reasonable total. However, Row's middle order shouldn't look for jobs with air traffic control, as they just couldn’t read the flight path of the Streat skipper Stan Spiegel, who worked with his way to 4-32 off 4.8 overs, and Row were suddenly struggling to avoid dismissal for less than 120. A late rally from Rowe and Mike Keeler (13), with a well worked partnership of 17, and then an excellent unbroken partnership of 37 between Rowe and Jamie Brownlie (16no) took Row's final total to a more than respectable 180-9. In reply, Streat's lost their top three batsmen for 19 runs, Mike Keeler 2 wickets and Simon Trench 1 struck early. Bowles (19) and Tomsett (20) put Streat back on track with a rapid 4th wicket partnership of 36. However once they fell in quick succession, the remaining wickets fell at regular intervals, M Stratford (13no) being the only over batsman to get double figures.

Streat were eventually dismissed for 87 by the 28th over. Mike Keeler was the pick of the Row bowlers with 4-10 off 7 overs.