Buckingham Town Cricket Club - September 5th 2004

Irthlingborough vs Buckingham Town

Henry Colver (46) and Matt Arnull (57) set up the success with an opening stand worth 111 runs as they chased 257 runs for victory. Arnull's fifty came from 64 balls in 74 minutes and contained five boundaries, including one six.

After both openers fell in the space of eleven runs and the mantle was taken up by new batsmen James Gear and Jeetan Patel.

Another solid stand saw the pair add 128 runs for the third wicket and take Town with just seven runs of victory.

Gear made a 44-ball half century while his Kiwi partner reached the same score from a quickfire 31 balls.

It was left to Jonny Cater and Shiv Talsania to see Town home with six wickets remaining.

Earlier in the day the home side's top order all made runs before Chris Harris returned with a four-wicket blast that ripped out the middle order.

Irthlingborough lost eight wickets for just 23 runs as they collapsed to 250 for 9 before finally posting 256 for 9.

Town's success sees them now play the winners of Wollaston and Wolverton at Northampton Saints ground on Sunday.

Buckingham Town 2nd XI vs Aynho

In form Russell Thompson (35) and John Pengelly(33) were top scorers. Aynho in reply slumped to 24-6 but were seen home thanks to John Wright 88n.o.

Innings of Buckingham Town 2nds

R.Hutt          c&b Skuce                  22
I.Wilkinson     c&b Skuce                  11
M.Dipple        c Skuce b Hawkins          18
R.Thompson      b Horricks                 35
J.Pengelly      b Horricks                 33
O.Finucane      run out                     2
T.Archdeacon    c J.Wright b Horricks       7
B.Stafford      c&b Mears                   5
S.Board         run out                     2
H.Mure          not out                    13
P.Welford       b D.Wright                  0
Extras                                     30
Total                                     178-10

I.Skuce         11-1-39-2
M.Taylor        9-2--37-0
M.Horricks      10-1-37-3
R.Hawkins       5-0-29-1
M.Mears         2-0-18-1
D.Wright        2-0-10-1

Innings of Aynho

D.Wright        b Mure                      0
Noakley         b Archdeacon                0
Grant           b Archdeacon                5
M.Mears         b Mure                      0
K.Tustain       c Finucane b Archdeacon     0
J.Wright        not out                    88
D.Hawkins       c S.Board b Archdeacon      8
R.Land          c Dipple b Stafford        12
M.Horricks      c J.Pengelly b Welford     20
M. Taylor       c Welford b Stafford       13
I. Skuce        not out                     6
Extras                                     26
Total                                     182-9

H.Mure          8-1-21-2
T.Archdeacon    8-4-19-4
B.Stafford      8-0-50-2
P.Welford       8-0-22-1
S.Board         7-0-45-0
O.Finucane      1-0-10-0

Result: Aynho won by 1 wicket.