Buckingham Town Cricket Club - July 3rd 2004 Match Reports

Buckingham Town Cricket Club - July 3rd 2004

Buckingham Town v Challow & Childrey

Oxford Times Cherwell Cricket League, Division One.

Andy Bone writes:
James Gear made a vital unbeaten 89 to help take Buckingham Town to a four-wicket success against Challow & Childrey in saturday's Oxford Times Cherwell Cricket League, Division One encounter.

Gear showed his experience after coming to the crease as Town slipped to another poor start and were 20 for 3.

Skipper Bryn Jones (40) supported well with a solid knock to help lift Town to the century mark before being caught.

Jeetan Patel looked in fine form before he was caught and, at 112 for 5, Town still had a lot of hard work to perform.

Thankfully, the dogged Gear played a well-timed innings and guided under 16s Skipper Shiv Talsania. The youngster's support was all the in-form Gear required at a vital stage of the game that Town needed to win.

Talsania (4) edged to the visiting wicketkeeper Mark Podbury and saw his team mate, under 15s captain Jonny Cater, come to the crease.

The pair proceeded to add a match-winning unbeaten partnership of 70 runs as Gear lead the way and saw Cater grow in confidence at the opposite end.

Town made it home in 47.4 overs with Gear's 89 not out coming in two and a half hours from 111 balls faced while Cater hit the winning runs as he finished with an excellent undefeated knock of 26 runs.

Nigel Hill finished with three for 53 for Challow & Childrey.

Earlier in the day, Vish Valambhia's opening burst bagged him three wickets while Paul Streater made Lumb steer the ball to Jason Ell as the visitors were left reeling at 26 for 4.

A fifth wicket stand of 145 helped take Challow & Childrey from that difficult position as Nick Watkins stroked a magnificent century and found Laurence Houghton (47) in excellent form.

Challow and Childrey then lost their last six wickets for just 26 runs as the posted 197 all out in 47.3 overs.

Vish Valambhia took four for 25, Patel, who continues to take wickets, finished with three for 79 and Ell chipped in with two for 57 for the home side.

The win takes Town out of the relegation places at the halfway stage of the season.

Innings of Challow & Childrey

1. J.Penny      Lbw b V.Valambhia         8
2. G.Lumb       c Ell b Streater          9
3. N.Watkins    b Ell                   100
4. N.Hill       c Gear b V.Valambhia      0
5. B.James      Lbw b V.Valambhia         0
6. L.Houghton   c M.Thatcher b Patel     47
7. O.Dimbylow   c & b Ell                 2
8. N.Podbury    Lbw b Patel               0
9. D.Slade      b Patel                   8
10. A.Hunter    b V.Valambhia             5
11. M.Turnbull  not out                   1
Extras                                   17
TOTAL                                   197 all out

Bowling figures

P.Streater      7-1-29-1
V.Valambhia     9.3-3-25-4
J.Patel         17-1-79-3
J.Ell           14-1-57-2

Fall of wickets:

Innings of Buckingham Town

1. M.Thatcher           c Hill b Slade           2
2. Al.Romaine           c Podbury b Dimbylow     8
3. Ant Romaine          c Podbury b Dimbylow     5
4. J.Gear               not out                 89
5. B.Jones              c Watkins b Hill        40
6. J.Patel              c Watkins b Hill        11
7. Shiv Talsania        c Podbury b Hill         4
8. J.Cater              not out                 26
Extras                                          16
TOTAL                                          201 for 6 wickets

Bowling figures

D.Slade         12-2-46-1
O.Dimbylow      9-1-46-2
M.Turnbull      7-1-36-0
N.Hill          15.4-3-53-3
A.Hunter        4-0-12-0

Fall of wickets:

RESULT: BUCKINGHAM WON BY 4 WICKETS

Challow & Childrey vs Buckingham Town 2nd XI

Nick Board writes:
Town 2nd X1 came close to recording a win away at Challow but lacked experience in the lower order to take the win. However, Challow were restricted to 83-3 at the half way stage with left armer Suresh Talsania causing the batsmen most of the problems. Ryan Spragg supported well at the other end although Challow increased the tempo during the second half scoring at six an over to reach 206 - 9 at the end of their innings. Talsania bowled unchanged, recording figures of 3- 75 from hid twenty five overs.

In reply, Town openers Taylor (41)and Arnull got off to a steady start but found the going tough against an accurate attack and slow wicket. Richard Pengelly (58)increased the tempo with a beligerent innings and put Town on the track to victory,supported by Talsania (21). However, needing just four runs per over, the innings fell apart as five wickets tumbled for thirteen runs. At the end of the innings,Town were just twenty runs short.

Innings of Challow

Head            b Spragg                10
Podbury R       b Talsania               5
Podbury N       c Board P b Arnull       5
Wixey           b Arnull                12
Penrose         c Pengelly b Talsania   10
Penney          b Talsania              26
Watts           c Board N b Spragg      32
Tamplin         run out                 15
Ekins           b Spragg                23
Owen            not out                  4
Beauzaval       not out                  4
Extras                                  17
Total                                  206 for 9

Bowling figures

Spragg          14-3-60-3
Talsania        25-6-74-3
Arnull          8-2-33-2
Sly             3-0-26-0

Innings of Buckingham Town

Arnull          c Podbury b Beauzeval   11
Taylor          c sub b Ekins           41
Board N         c&b Ekins               11
Thatcher A      b Ekins                  8
Pengelly        c Penney b Ekins        58
Talsania S      b Ekins                 21
Spragg          b Ekins                  0
Board P         c sub b Ekins            3
Talsania K      run out                  5
Stafford        not out                  0
Sly             b Ekins                  0
Extras                                  23
Total                                  181 for 10

Bowling figures

Beauzeval       8-1-26-2
Owen            15-2-40-0
Ekins           12-0-55-7
Head            9-0-27-0

Oxford & Bletchingdon 4ths vs Buckingham Town Saturday 3rd XI

Bob Hutt writes:
Buckingham Town 3rds had a fine 9 wicket win over Oxford & Bletchingdon 4ths. The Oxon side elected to bat and against a tight opening bowling attack of Stuart Helps and Dominic Pritchard they struggled and scored slowly. After 37 overs they had only scored 98 runs but in the last nine overs they increased the tempo thanks to C.Smith(47) and closed on 164-7. Stuart Helps took 4-82 bowling throughout and Dominic Pritchard was very economical with 1-33 from 17 overs.

Buckingham made a splendid start with veterans Tim Archdeacon 85n.o. and Bob Hutt(47) who put on 137 for the first wicket and set up a comfortable nine wicket victory.

Innings of Oxford & Bletchingdon 4th

Hutchence       c Thompson b Dipple     41
O'Brien         b D.Pritchard            7
Day             b Helps                  0
Berry           b Helps                 20
West            lbw Helps               17
C.Smith         b Roberts               47
Scaresbrook     c&b Helps                6
Hales           not out                  2
Price           not out                  9
Extras                                  15
Total                                  165-7

Bowling figures

S.Helps         23-5-82-4
D.Pritchard     17-7-33-1
M.Dipple        4-0-31-1
W.Roberts       2-0-10-1

Innings of Buckingham Town 3rds

R. Hutt         lbw C.Smith             47
T.Archdeacon    not out                 85
R.Thompson      not out                 15
Extras                                  21
Total                                  168-1

Bowling figures

C.Day           12.4-3-39-0
S.Berry         10-02-52-0
C.Smith         11-1-38-1
A.Grose         11.2-0-4-0
L.Price         7.3-1-27-0

RESULT: Buckingham Town 3rds(30pts) beat Oxford & Bletchingdon(8pts) by nine wickets.

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