Buckingham Town Cricket Club - July 9th 2006Buckingham Town 1st XINo fixture was arranged for today.Buckingham Town 2nd XI vs Crawley Green Nomads 1st XIAndy Bone writes:Rob Pritchard (65), Russell Thompson (56) and Ian Wilkinson were amongst the runs as Buckingham Town's sunday second team defeated Wescott by 20 runs. Town posted 231 for 7 from their 40 overs on a bright afternoon at Bourton road. In reply, captain Stuart Helps bowled all his youngsters with Andy Norman in awesome form returning with three for 22 in six overs.
Thompson collected two for 21 while the experienced Rod Bridgman
finished with two for 17.
Town won a one-sided semi final against Overstone Park by 186 runs. Batting first, Nick Wilkes (59) and Josh Goff (25) dominated the bowlers and the fielders in putting on 69. From the eighth over Overstone were then taken apart by Jamie Hirst (100 not out) and Dilshan Direkze (23 not out), Hirst hitting 6 sixes before reaching his century with a single off the last ball, from a total of 233 for 2. Town's bowlers were equally dominant, with Harsh Jethra (3-9) and Toby O'Neill (1-10) removing Overstone's top order before Callum Cater took 2 for 2 in three overs and Adam Bone reeled off three maidens for one wicket to reduce Overstone to 28 for 7. The eighth pair then patiently batted out the last 8 overs to end on 47 for 7. The final was an enthralling ebb and flow played in very good spirit. Wellingborough had the master stroke of starting with their slow left armer Alex Price who gave the ball flight and turn and had the understandably over confident Wilkes and Hirst both stumped in the first over of the match. Further wickets fell as Town staggered to 32 for 4, before composed batting stopped the collapse and rebuilt the innings. Goff (48) and Jethra (29 not out) played the major roles but the middle and lower order batsmen all played sensibly and enterprisingly against very good bowling and took the total to 121 for 8. Town then had the match in their grasp. They bowled excellently, leaving Wellingborough needing 48 from 5 overs. The fielding was outstanding until the pressure did funny things and led to errors which cost 3 or 4 run-out chances and a number of runs in fumbles and overthrows. Nonetheless, only 7 extras were conceded in the whole innings, four wides and three leg-byes. 26 were still needed from 2 overs when Tyrone Roach took 22 from the 19th over including two straight sixes, which brought the target down to only 4 in the last over, in which Wellingborough clinched victory by 6 wickets. Opening batsman Dean Abbott played the other main role, scoring 53 not out to add to his 3 stumpings. |