Buckingham Town Cricket Club - September 2nd 2006

Captain Rob Large won the toss and elected to chase on a very blustery day at Bourton Road that even saw the sightscreen toppled over.

Graham Simpson and Paul Strong opened the innings for the visitors and shared a stand worth 33 runs before a very sharp piece of fielding gave Town their first wicket of the day. Strong padded the ball straight to James Gear who threw down the stumps after spotting the right hander out of his ground and the square leg umpire had no hesitation in giving the batsman out.

Simpson reached his half century having scored 51 of the 67 runs on the board before Jason Ell's swing castled James Ward (9) a run later.

Simpson (52) departed after Jimad Khan took a good catch off of Greg Pearson's bowling as MK Park went to 79 for 4.

Ghufran Mohammed and Tristain Hardy shared a stand of 19 runs before the introduction of spin duo James Gear and Ben Stafford bowling in tandem spun out the tail as MK Park lost their last six wickets for just 24 runs.

Gear bowled Mohammed (17) and Hardy (5) before Stafford had Nick Packhard (8) caught by Khan.

Gear then had Paddy Rathbone (0) trapped in front before Stafford bowled Kenny Hollis (2) and David Warwick (0) as he took three wickets for just one run in sixteen balls.

MK Park were all out for 122 in 44.4 overs with Stafford's three for 7 in 4.4 overs and Gear's three for 18 in seven overs the pick of the bowling. Pearson and Ell bowled fifteen overs each and finished with two for 34 and one for 39 respectively.

With rain in the air, Town, like they did at Banbury a week earlier, were forced to add tempo to their innings.

Large and Leigh Tomlinson added a 65-run opening partnership before Mohammed bowled Tomlinson (32) in the fifteenth over.

Jonny Cater joined his captain in the middle and the pair added valuable runs in the drizzle before Town's wicketkeeper batsman was caught for 25 runs with the score on 112.

The in-form Large, who smashed an unbeaten 93 just a week earlier at Banbury, reached an aggressive half century before Khan hit the winning runs with a boundary through the covers to give Town an eight-wicket win.