Buckingham Town Cricket Club - June 12th 2004

Bicester and North Oxford vs Buckingham Town

Town inserted Bicester and took two early wickets thanks to Chris Harris and Paul Streater.

Richard Kelly (67) then dominated stands with Ian Hawtin (21) and Taquir Hussain (42) before the spin duo of Jeetan Patel five for 52 and James Gear two for 53 pegged Bicester and North Oxford back to a modest total of 185 for 9 at the halfway stage.

Town started brightly with Matthew Thatcher (30) and Alex Romaine (11) opening up well for their side.

Quick wickets fell before Patel (45) and Gear (10) put down solid foundations for the fifth wicket with a 39-run partnership.

Oxon spinner Paul Jeacock spun his way through Town's batting order and finished with match winning figures of six for 33 in 18 overs.

Hussian chipped in with three for 41 as Town lost their last six wickets for just 22 runs.

Buckingham Town 2st XI vs Chalgrove

Chalgrove hung onto a draw at 150-9. as Buckingham's bowlers Ryan Spragg 3-4 and Paul Sly 3-41 just failed to win the game for Buckingham.

Nick Board's view of the same game:
Although Town produced a number of creditable individual performances they were unable to take maximum points against basement club Chalgrove. Put into bat, Town opener Taylor (74)continued his run of good form, controlling the innings on a difficult wicket. He was supported along the way by the middle order but it was a late partnership of thirty three runs between Vish Valambhia and Tom Murray which took the score to a respectable 179 at the half way stage.

Early wickets were essential if Chalgrove were to be bowled out and Valambhia removed opener Stokes in his third over to set town on their way. However, whilst the bowling was tight it lacked penetration and Paul Sly was introduced and with gentle away swing removed three batsmen in the space of eight overs, one of which included a superb gulley catch by Tom Murray. Ryan Spragg returning for his second spell produced a sparkling two overs taking three wickets and putting Town in with a real chance of winning. Although skipper Ed Jones rotated the bowling, the final pair survived the last three overs to share the points.

Innings of Buckingham Town 2nds

M.Taylor        b Busby                 74
Shiv Talsania   c Shorter b Harvey      11
N.Board         b Busby                 11
E.Jones         b Shorter               19
A.Thatcher      b Shorter                0
M.Arnull        c&b Shorter              5
T.Murray        b Shorter                9
V.Valambhia     not out                 31
R.Pengelly      c Clanfield b Shorter    2
R.Spragg        b Harvey                 2
P.Sly           not out                  2
extras                                  15
Total                                  179-9

Shorter         9-1-15-5

Innings of Chalgrove 2nds

Stoakes         c R.Pengelly b V.Valambhia       2
Bailey          st Thatcher b Sly               29
Hedges          c N.Board b Sly                 15
Clanfield       c Murray b Sly                   2
Clark           c Thatcher b Spragg             30
Shorter         c R.Pengelly b Jones             8
Telford         lbw V.Valambhia                  1
Busby           c R.Pengelly b Spragg           13
Cruickshank     b Spragg                         5
Harvey          not out                          4
Patel           not out                          5
Extras                                          27
Total                                          150-9

V.Valambhia     11-2-29-2
R.Spragg        9-6-4-3
P.Sly           14-3-41-3
M.Arnull        8-1-14-0
E.Jones         3-1-13-1
Shiv Talsania   2-0-10-0
R.Pengelly      3-0-17-0

RESULT: Buckingham Town 2nds(16pts) drew with Chalgrove(10pts)

Buckingham Town 3rd XI vs Cropredy 2nd XI

Buckingham after losing openers Tim Archdeacon(28) and Krishen Talsania cruised home losing just two more wickets thanks to Suresh Talsania(70) and skipper Stuart Helps 38n.o.

Innings of Cropedy 2nds

Wells           c&b Stafford                    36
Varney          c B.Valambhia b K.Talsania      11
Dickie          b D.Pritchard                   35
Schouten        c B.Valambhia b Stafford        10
Reid            b Stafford                       2
Lewis           c D.Pritchard b Stafford        15
Deagan          not out                         25
Starkie         c Thompson b Stafford            2
Bennet          not out                         20
Extras                                          26
Total                                          186-7

Su. Talsania    14-4-39-0
K.Talsania      5-0-17-1
M.Dipple        6-0-28-0
D.Pritchard     12-2-35-1
B.Stafford      9-0-54-5

Innings of Buckingham Town 3rds

T.Archdeacon    b Dickie                28
K.Talsania      b Dickie                 6
S.Talsania      c Schouten b Dickie     70
S.Helps         not out                 38
D.Pritchard     run out                  0
B.Valambhia     not out                 12
Extras                                  29
Total                                  187-4

Dickiew         11.2-1-60-3
Starkie         11-2-45-0
Reid            3-0-27-0
Miles           6-0-38-0

RESULT: Buckingham Town 3rds(30pts) beat Cropedy 2nds(12pts) by six wickets