Buckingham Town Cricket Club - August 6th 2005

Old Northamptonians vs Buckingham Town

Town, placed second at start of play, travelled to league leaders ONs and batted first with Steve Beck (51) and Shiv Talsania (57) sharing an opening stand worth 88 runs before James Tomlinson (33) returned to form with the bat.

The miserly Fagin returned to finish with four for 21, while Fourie claimed three for 18 as Town posted 166 for 7 from their 40 overs.

Vish Valambhia struck twice early on before an unbeaten third wicket stand of 109 between Newton (54 n/o) and Dixon (75 n/o) saw the home side to victory.

Innings of Buckingham

S.Beck             b Fourie              51
S.Talsania         c Mclean b Fagin      57
J.Tomlinson        c Cory b Fourie       33
J.Cater            b Fourie               5
R.Thompson         lbw b Fagin            1
L.Tomlinson        st Hamill b Fagin      1
R.Pritchard        not out                2
V.Valambhia        b Fagin                0
N.Pritchard        not out                4
Extras                                   12
Total 166 for 7 from 40 overs

Milligan         8-1-46-0
Fagin            8-1-21-4
Cory             7-0-43-0
Moley-Bunker     4-0-14-0
McClean          5-2-15-0
Fourie           8-2-18-3

Innings of ONs

J.Newton             not out                    54
J.Mellor             b Valambhia                16
R.Milligan           c D.Pritchard b Valambhia   7
G.Dixon              not out                    75
Extras                                          19
Total 167 for 2

V.Valambhia     9-2-27-2
S.Beck          9-1-39-0
B.Stafford      5-0-30-0
D.Pritchard     4-0-25-0
S.Talsania      2-0-16-0
J.Tomlinson     2-0-11-0
N.Pritchard     0.3-0-5-0

Buckingham Town 2nd XI vs Stewkley

Buckingham batted first and made a reasonable 209-7 with Andy Thatcher in fine form scoring 104.

Stewkley won with two overs remaining thanks to a hard hitting knock from skipper Martin Gregory who blasted 84 not out.

Innings of Buckingham Town 2nds

A. Thatcher                     b Gregory       104
J. Pengelly                     b Gregory        21
I. Wilkinson    c Gregory       b Smith           8
T. Archdeacon                   b A.Bremnath      7
B. Valambhia                    b Smith          20
J. Coxhill                      b Gregory        19
R. Hutt                       lbw Beasley         4
C. Horsler              not     out               9
D. Foster               not     out               5
                                Extras           12
                                Total           209-7

M. Gregory      8-0-37-3
P. Smith        7-0-36-2
A. Bremnath     8-1-19-1
T. Beasley      3-0-11-1
A. Weston       4-0-30-0
C. Roadnight    3-0-20-0
J. Ellis        4-0-33-0
B. Hall         3-0-21-0

Innings of Stewkley

G. Gator                        b B.Valambhia   21
T. Beasley                      b B.Valambhia   36
J. Hall         c Archdeacon    b D. Foster     32
M. Gregory              not             out     84
A. Weston               not             out      9
                                Extras          28
                                Total          210-3

I. Gough        8-3-31-0
C. Horsler      8-1-25-0
D. Foster       7-1-34-1
B. Valambhia    8-2-24-2
C. Coxhill      7-0-72-0