Buckingham Town Cricket Club - July 10th 2004

Buckingham Town v Milton Keynes Park

Oxford Times Cherwell Cricket League, Division One.

After being inserted, Town lost early wickets before Anthony Romaine and James Gear joined forces to add a 54-run partnership for the third wicket.

Romaine (35) then edged to the wicketkeeper and Town lost two quick wickets as the left arm of Mohammed Ghufran bowled an excellent line in the corridor outside off stump.

Bryn Jones, who stood down to be replaced by Jeetan Patel in the week, supported the confident looking Gear before a heavy shower forced the players from the field for the fifth successive week.

The overs were adjusted and an early tea had been taken before Town resumed their innings at 104 for 4. Just nine overs were available for Town to post a total.

With MK Park looking in a good position when play finally got underway again, Gear and Jones set about the visitors attack with some aggressive hitting. The pair wrestled the initiative away from the visitors and put Town firmly in to the ascendancy.

Gear's rise to bat at four has seen him excel in recent weeks as the two former skippers savaged the bowling. MK Park's captain Graham Simpson on the wrong end of the onslaught as his third over was despatched for 28 runs.

A 94-ball half century came up for Gear in fine style before he finally departed for an excellent 66 runs just seven balls later.

Jones and Patel nurdled the ball around at the end to help Town post 195 for 5 in their readjusted 40 overs.

Town needed a positive start and found Paul Streater's early spell finding bounce and movement the momentum they required.

Streater made Strong edge to Town's young wicketkeeper Jonny Cater and castled Hollis as Town grew in confidence.

The MK Park dangerman, Jamie Wade, showed briefly why he such a prolific run scorer with some classy strokeplay and he dominated the third wicket stand with James Sprittles as they added 26 runs.

The swing of Jason Ell stemmed the flow of runs and at 54 for 2 the game was finely poised.

Ell dismissed Wade (32) and MK Park proceeded to lose five wickets for just nine runs with Patel inflicting the damage as he rooted out the middle order.

Mohammed hit some lusty blows before Streater took a difficult skier that came out of the gloomy evening sky and MK Park's run chase was effectively over.

James Clark and Stuart Keeping proved a difficult obstacle to remove and, after another stoppage, the pair returned to bat out the remaining four overs as MK Park finished 121 for 8 at stumps.

Streater bowled well for his three for 11 and Patel returned with four for 37 as Town collected sixteen points to MK Park's five.

Innings of Buckingham Town

1.M.Thatcher    b Mohammed              14
2.Al.Romaine    b Keeping                1
3.Ant Romaine   c Ward b Mohammed       35
4.J.Gear        c Hollis b Sprittles    66
5.D.Harris      c Ward b Sprittles       5
6.B.Jones       not out                 43
7.J.Patel       not out                  2
Extras                                  29
TOTAL                                  195 for 5 wickets from 40 overs

S.Keeping       11-1-48-1
M.Ghufran       20-1-73-2
J.Sprittles     6-0-25-2
G.Simpson       3-0-38-0

1 - 17
2 - 23
3 - 77
4 - 84
5 - 188

Innings of MK Park

1.K.Hollis      b Streater              5
2.P.Strong      c Cater b Streater      4
3.J.Wade        b Ell                  32
4.J.Sprittles   c Jones b Streater      4
5.G.Simpson     Lbw b Patel             3
6.S.Hardy       c Harris b Patel        5
7.A.Kilbey      c & b Patel             1
8.G.Mohammed    c Streater b Patel     25
9.J.Clark       not out                19
10.S.Keeping    not out                 6
Extras                                 17
TOTAL                                 121 for 8 wickets from 35 overs

P.Streater      11-2-39-3
V.Valambhia     6-1-25-0
J.Ell           7-3-9-1
J.Patel         9-2-37-4
J.Gear          2-0-5-0

1 - 8
2 - 28
3 - 54
4 - 54
5 - 62
6 - 62
7 - 63
8 - 91

RESULT: Match drawn Buckingham 15, MK Park 5

Henley v Buckingham Town 2nd XI

Oxford Times Cherwell Cricket League, Division Four.

In a rain affected match, Henley made steady progress with consistent contributions but the introduction of seam bowler Suresh Talsania after twenty overs completely changed the game as he ripped the middle order out with a superb spell of fifteen overs taking 6-44, five of his victims clean bowled. Henley progressed to 174 for nine at the half way stage, setting Town a run rate of four per over.

Opening batsmen Shiv Talsania(68) and Mike Taylor(61) survived the new ball and began to dominate the bowling and it was Talsania who led the way displaying a range of shots on both sides of the wicket. The opening pair put on 129 for the first wicket, leaving Ed Jones (27) to complete the formalities and take maximum points with a six over log on.

Innings of Henley

Rhodes          run out                  3
Noakes          lbw Talsania            43
Murray          b Talsania              39
Hogg            c&B K Talsania          26
Housego         C N Board b Pengelly    34
Ferrar          b Talsania               2
Williams        b Talsania               8
Paice           b Talsania               1
Willis          b Talsania               2
Chamberline     not out                  1
Johnson         not out                  1
Extras                                  14
Total                                  174 for 9

Spragg          8-2-24-0
Arnull          11-2-33-0
Talsania S      15-1-44-6
Pengelly        5-0-32-1;
Talsania K      5-0-32-0

Innings of Buckingham Town

Talsania, Shiv  lbw Housego       68
Taylor          b Chamberlain     61
Jones           not out           27
Thatcher        not out            1
Extras                            18
Total                            175 for 2

Chanberlain     11-0-51-1
Ferrar          7-0-23-0
Johnson         6-0-17-0
Housego         5-0-27-1

Buckingham Town 3rd XI v Bicester & N.Oxford 3rd XI

Put into bat Buckingham made a useful 250-9. Opener Paul Board batted very well scoring an excellent 88 and found good support through 13year old Jamie Hirst who made a superb 62 on his debut for the Town's thirds. Skipper Helps (28) looked in good form until being caught behind. Bicester never looked like winning or losing and closed on 183-8 with Simon Board taking 3-64.

Buckingham Town 3rds

P.Board         run out                 88
T.Archdeacon    c Heron b Edwards       13
S.Helps         c Wilkins b Farrance    28
R.Thompson      b Farrance              19
J.Hirst         run out                 62
N.Pritchard     c&b Farrance             4
D.Pritchard     b Farrance               2
R.Hutt          not out                  5
S.Board         b Farrance               1
M.Dipple        b Edwards                6
Extras                                  30
Total                                  250-9

J.Farrance      14-2-59-5
R.Edwards       17-0-83-2

Innings of Bicester & North Oxfords 3rds

Friend          lbw Board               10
Vadivale        B D.Pritchard            3
Coxhead         c Thompson b Helps      23
Heron           c Archdeacon b Board    23
Wilkins         b Helps                 16
Virdee          run out                 31
Chambers        run out                 10
Shorey          c Helps b Helps         11
Edwards         not out                 15
Allen           not out                  6
Extras                                  20
Total                                  183-8

D.Pritchard     10-1-36-1
S.Board         13-1-64-3
M.Dipple        5-0-34-0
S.Helps         7-0-14-2
W.Roberts       6-0-27-0
R.Thompson      2-0-8-0

RESULT: Match Drawn Buckingham T.3rds(18pts) Bicester & N.Oxford 3rds (12pts)