Buckingham Town Cricket Club - July 12th 2005Buckingham Town U14 vs WestburyChris Wilkes writes:Buckingham Town and Westbury entertained a good crowd of parents and locals in a Shires U14 League match played in friendly derby spirit at Preston Bissett, which Town won by 79 runs. Town started carefully against accurate opening spells from Jack Bridges and Ben Sutton before Josh Goff got into his stride, playing mainly orthodox strokes as he hit 14 fours and a six in his score of 102. He was well supported by Dilshan Direkze (25) and Harsh Jethra (37 not out) as Town closed on 206 for 5 after their 25 overs. In reply, Westbury kept close to the run arte but lost wickets too regularly to ever look likely to reach their target, Alex Walters (24) and Josh Lait (33) being the top scorers in the total of 127 all out in 17 overs. Anthony Carver made a promising debut at this age group, taking 3-32, while Rob How (2-17), Goff (2-0!) and Jonny Neeves (1-10) also took wickets with the help of five good catches. There were also two run-outs, one a superb underarm flick by Steve Brunning, who also had a good debut. Buckingham Town U13 vs MK CityKaren Cater writes:Buckingham Town under 13's played the last of their League matches against MK City, finishing the season unbeaten. Due to so much success in previous games many boys have not had a chance to bat or bowl many overs. With the league already won, batting & bowling orders were changed but this did not alter the quality of their performance. Buckingham opened the batting with style, both Adam Davies & Pete Stanford reaching retirement totals of 30, the pair finding 8 boundaries between them. Other notable scorers were Adam Bone(20), Jack Deal(14 no) & Callum Cater(10 no). Town made 138-4 from their 20 overs. Town's bowlers came under attack from City's openers Loveland & Button before Anton Spires bowling produced a fine catch from Adam Bone to dismiss Loveland on 25, Button went on to retire on 30. Further wickets fell to Callum Cater(caught & bowled), & Tom Hill(stumped Deal). City fell short of the total finishing on 112-3. |