TEENAGER Jamie Curtis fell victim to the heat in Oxfordshire’s ten-wicket defeat by Herefordshire at Great & Little Tew.
The 15-year-old should have resumed the batting at the start of the final day of the Unicorns Counties Championship Western Division match But before play started he was suffering from dehydration, and only came in at the fall of the ninth wicket.
Oxon resumed their second innings on 122-5 – a lead of 78 – and Lloyd Sabin and Chad Keegan resisted for a while.
However, after Keegan was caught in the deep, the last four wickets fell for 20 runs as the hoists were all out for 177.
Sabin fell for 36 made of 91 balls, while Herefordshire off-spinner Peter Burgoyne picked up 7-58.
The visitors’ opening pair of Matt Pardoe and Will Fraine, who put on a mammoth stand of 262 in the first innings, knocked off the 134 runs required for victory inside 24 overs, to condemn Oxfordshire to their third defeat in four Championship games.
There was further bad news for Oxon, when skipper Jonny Cater suffered the recurrence of a finger injury and handed over the gloves to Sabin.
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