Buckingham Town Cricket Club - June 25th 2005

Buckingham Town 2nd XI vs Long Marston

Earlier the visitors had been asked to bat on a damp wicket and openers Demain(27) and Bowls(20) put on 67 for the first wicket although they found the bowling of Spragg and Valambhia difficult to dominate set up a solid platform from which to accelerate.

The introduction of Bryn Jones (2-25) into the attack saw his away swing remove to batsmen in quick succession but this brought Lyons (59) to the crease who gave Marston a real chance by hitting six fours and a six. Graham Judd (3-42) continued his run of good form with ball, which included the dismissal of Lyons and with Richard Pengelly (1-11) prevented the tail from accelerating. At tea Long Marston had reached 178 all out.

Marston decided on the spin option to restrict Town the openers but Mike Taylor(46) continues to score heavily and although he lost his partner Talsania early developed good partnerships with bry Jones(21), Graham Judd (21) and Ed Jones(20).

However, Beesley's (5-60) slow left arm was regularly picking up wickets and with ten overs remaining forty runs were still needed although Town had four wickets in hand. Working the ball around into the gaps, enabled a series of quickly run singles to be taken and with four fours Nick Board (34 no) saw Town through to victory with two overs to spare and to take maximum points.

Innings of Long Marston

Demain                   b Spragg       27
Bowls     c  Valambhia   b  Jones       20
Lyons     st  Pritchard  b  Judd        59
Evans                    b  Jones        0
Robinson  LBW  Judd                     11
Marsh     run out Spragg                24
Rose      run out Pengelley              8
Green     c  Board       b  Judd         1
Slade                    b  Pengelly     0
Keable    run out Talsania               0
Beesley   not out                        0
Extras                                  28
Total                                  178

Spragg     13-3-28-1
Valambhia  8-2-30-0
Jones      7-0-25-2
Pritchard  9-1-37-0
Judd       10-1-42-3
Pengelly   3-1-11-1

Innings of Buckingham Town 2nd XI

Taylor         c  Marsh  b  Beesley    46
Talsania                 b  Keable      3
Jones B                c&b  Beesley    21
Judd           c  Evans  b  Beesley    21
Jones E        c  Bowls  b  Demain     20
Valambhia                b  Beesley    10
Board           not out                34
Pengelly       LBW          Beesley     4
Pritchard D            c&b  Demain      6
Pritchard R  not out                    1
Extras                                 15
Total                                 181 - 8

Keable   12-1-54-1
Beesley  24-8-60-5
Demain   12-0-57-2

Aylesbury 2nd XI vs Buckingham Town 3rd XI

Skipper Hutt won the toss and put Aylesbury into bat on a damp wicket and they lost three early wickets. C. Andrews(47) and Mark(19) looked threatening until Paul Sly got them both out to finish with 5-9.

Opening bowlers Chris Colbourn and Lee Hayes both bowled well and Russell Thompson took three excellent catches and Dilshan Direkze produced a good piece of fielding to gain a run out.

Buckingham were 23-3 and in trouble but Direkze(26) and Hutt(12) put on valuable runs as Buckingham won by 4 wickets.

Innings of Aylesbury Town 2nds

Jamil                           b Colbourn       0
Majid                           b Colbourn       1
C.Andrews       c Thompson      b Sly           47
Wakar                           run     out      0
Mark            c Thompson      b Sly           19
Nasir           c Hayes         b Sly            2
Tariq           c Merrill       b Hayes          1
Jamil           c Direkze       b Dipple         3
Aftab           c Wilkes        b Sly            0
Akeel           c Thompson      b Sly            0
Arbae                   not     out              0
                                Extras           5
                                Total           81-10

C. Colbourn     7-0-32-2
L. Hayes        11-0-40-1
P. Sly          5.5-2-9-5
M. Dipple       1-0-2-1

Innings of Buckingham Town 3rds

J. Merrill      c               b Andrews       10
T. Archdeacon   c               b Aftab         15
R. Thompson                     b Andrews        0
N. Wilkes       c               b Andrews        2
D. Direkze      c               b Nasir         26
R. Hutt                         b Andrews       12
M. Dipple               not     out              1
C. Colbourn             not     out             10
                                Extras           6
                                Total           82-6

Aftab           7-0-33-1
C.Andrews       9-1-23-4
Nasir           2.5-0-20-1