Buckingham Town Cricket Club - May 30th 2004

Buckingham Town 1st XI vs Wollaston 1st XI

A strong Wollaston side scored 198-6 from their 40 overs after a good opening bowling spell from Ryan Spragg and Brijesh Valambhia. Dom Pritchard took 3-37 with Ryan Spragg,Simon Board and Dan Harris taking one each.

Buckingham made a good start with Dan Harris(48) and Kevin DeSilva(37) in good form but lost wickets steadily after DeSilva was unlucky to be adjudged lbw. Buckingham were dismissed for 144 a creditable effort with a weakened side against strong opposition.

Wollaston 1st XI

Hudson    lbw R.Spragg                  24
Bates     st N.Pritchard b D.Pritchard  62
Bannard   c K.DeSilva b S.Board          4
Driver    b D.Pritchard                 48
Perry     s Sh.Talsania b D.Harris       7
Pike      b D.Pritchard                 24
Dawson    not out                       16
Silsby    not out                        9
Extras                                   4
Total                                  198-6

R.Spragg        8-1-14-1
B.Valambhia     7-1-43-0
S.Board         4-0-25-1
K.Talsania      5-0-39-0
D.Pritchard     8-0-37-3
D.Harris        8-0-36-1

Buckingham Town 1st XI

D.Harris        b Perry                48
Sh.Talsania     c Hudson b Pike         9
K.DeSilva       lbw Whitham            37
P.Board         lbw Perry               2
D.Pritchard     c Pike  b Perry         0
R.Spragg        b Perry                16
J.Pengelly      c Silsby b Parsons      8
B.Valambhia     c Dawson b Perry        8
K.Talsania      c Perry b Driver        1
S.Board         b Driver                0
N.Pritchard     not out                 4
Extras                                  6
Total                                 144-10

C.Perry 4-26
Driver  2-7
Parsons 1-41
Whithan 1-49
Pike    18-1

Wollaston won by 54 runs

Buckingham Town 2nd XI vs Stony Stratford 2nd XI

Buckingham won the toss and elected to bat. Buckingham made 162 all out. Steve Kefford scored a useful 33 and young Nick Wilkes made a good 20. Stony with only 10 men replied with 142-8 thanks mainly to Capel 60n.o. as Buckingham failed to grab the last wicket to win the game. Youngsters Dilsan Direkse 3-27 and Nick Wilkes 2-13 bowled very well as did Adam Cook 2-24 and Jamie Hirst 1-12. Two excellent catches were taken by Josh Goff and Steve Kefford. Buckingham's youngsters did very well generally throughout the game.

Buckingham Town 2nds

J.Hirst         c Aylott b Gascoyne      9
S.Kefford       lbw M.Chaplin           33
J.Goff          b M.Chaplin             12
T.Archdeacon    c Gascoyne b N.Chaplin  14
M.Dipple        b N.Chaplin              7
C.Horsler       c Gascoyne b M.Chaplin   2
A.Cook          c Gascoyne b Lane       13
D.Direkse       b Lane                   5
N.Wilkes        c b Gascoyne            20
R.Thompson      c Capel b Gascoyne       0
R.Hutt          not out                  6
Extras                                  40
Total                                  162-10

T.Gascoyne      3-49
M.Chaplin       3-34
N.Chaplin       2-28
A.Lane          2-12

Stony Stratford 2nds

Lane         lbw Direkse          3
Aylott       c Kefford b Cook     6
Capel        not out             60
Bowen        c Goff  b N.Wilkes   8
Miller       lbw N.Wilkes        16
Oswin        b Direkse            7
Critchley    b Direkse            0
Gascoyne     c Thompson b Cook   18
N.Chaplin    lbw Hirst            0
M.Chaplin    not out              0
Extras                           24
Total                           142-8

A.Cook          8-0-24-2
D.Direkse       8-1-27-3
R.Thompson      8-0-35-0
N.Wilkes        8-0-13-2
C.Horsler       4-0-21-0
J.Hirst         4-0-12-1

Match Drawn