Buckingham Town Cricket Club - June 22nd 2006

The Farmers scored a useful 240-7 with D.Pritchard, I.Gough and A. Norman grabbing a brace of wickets apiece.

Ben Stafford caught an excellent catch.

Buckingham made a steady start with a solid knock from S. Helps(50) and R. Pitchard(21).

At 115-4 a hard hitting knock from Dom Pritchard(80) in fine form supported by skipper Bob Hutt(46) saw Town into a winning position by they were bowled out for 221 - their cause was not helped with Adam Cook retiring hurt. Both sides played with only 9 men but it was a good afternoon's cricket.

Innings of Chase Farmers

S. Proctor      c R.Pritchard   b Gough         11
N. Mead                       c&b D.Pritchard   36
M. Parrott      c Stafford      b D.Pritchard   25
J. Watson               not             out     70
R. Rolls        c Stafford      b Cook          47
G. Sear         st R.Pritchard  b Gough         33      
J. D'Agostino                   b Norman         4
W. Yirrel                       b Norman         0
B. Chandler             not             out      1
                                Extras          24
                                Total          240-7

A. Cook         9-0-77-1
I. Gough        7-1-37-2
D. Pritchard    10-4-32-2
A. Norman       9-1-50-2
B. Stafford     7-1-32-0

Innings of Buckingham Town Midweek

N. Pritchard                    b Mead           2
S. Helps        c Watson        b Mead          50
R. Pritchard    c Mead          b Chandler      21
B. Stafford     c Sear          b Chandler       6
D. Pritchard                    b D'Agostino    80
R. Hutt                       lbw Sear          46
A. Cook                 ret     hurt             0
A. Norman                       b Mead           7
I. Gough                not     out              2
                                Extras           8
                                Total          221-7

N. Mead         10.3-1-47-3
B. Chandler     8-1-28-1        
J.D'Agostino    8-1-60-1
S. Proctor      4-0-33-0
G. Sear         6-1-48-1

Town put their visitors in and had an early setback when opening bowler Jonny Neeves pulled up with an injury. Toby O'Neill (0-11) and Harsh Jethra (2-17) then bowled tidy spells to restrict the score to 31 for 2 from 8 overs. The visitors attacked the bowling but their acceleration was held back by the regular fall of wickets. O'Neill ran out the opening batsman.

Stuart Powell (3-30) caused a lot of difficulty with left arm spin and was unlucky to concede so many runs as the visitors hit out riskily. U14 Adam Bone (1-11) troubled the batsmen with his pace and Josh Goodey (1-5) bowled a good length. Nonetheless the innings finished on 96-8 to set a testing target.

Town's openers batted responsibly, defending and leaving where necessary but scoring freely off anything loose. Nick Wilkes hit some crisp back foot drives and cuts before being run out for 28, out of an opening stand of 44 in 7 overs.

With a solid foundation and already ahead of the required rate, Josh Goff (35 not out) and Dilshan Direkze (21 not out) kept the score moving comfortably, mainly in singles, before Direkze hit three boundaries to reach the target with more than three overs to spare.

Town will play Burnham or Penn & Tyler's Green in the final.