Buckingham Town Cricket Club - July 8th 2007

Town ease past Stony Stratford

Although Stony Strafford felt they could chase the total, that thought soon disappeared as Lawrence D'Silva bowled 6 overs with figures of 3 for 7. Beck then chipped in with 2 wickets and Stony Stratford were 43-5. Opening bowler Mitchell and captain Pickles offered some resistance but it seemed futile. When Hill removed Mitchell the game was over. Pickles went on to pass 50 but wickets continued to fall. A brief flurry of 21 from number 9 Winkworth helped give some respectability to the score, but in the end Stony Stratford fell 48 runs short.

Innings of Buckingham

J. Tomlinson                    b Mitchell       7
L. Tomlinson    c Aris          b Harmer        81
Cater*          run out                         50
R. Pritchard    lbw             b Gasgoine       0
Khan+           c Carter        b Aris          26
Hare                            b Harmer         0
Beck                            b Mitchell       7
D. Pritchard                    b Guy           14
N. Pritchard                    b Mitchell       0
D'Silva                         b Mitchell       7
Hill            not out                          0
Extras          (3b, 2lb, 10w)                  15
40 overs
Total                                          207 all out

Mitchell 9-1-30-4
Guy 9-1-52-1
Harmer 9-1-41-2
Jethra 2-0-16-0
Aris 9-2-43-1
Gasgoine 2-0-20-1

24-1 (J. Tomlinson)
113-2 (Cater)
113-3 (R. Pritchard)
152-4 (Khan)
153-5 (Hare)
174-6 (L. Tomlinson)
188-7 (Beck)
188-8 (N. Pritchard)
198-9 (D'Silva)
207-10 (D. Pritchard)

Innings of Stony Stratford

Carter          lbw             b D'Silva        0
West                            b D'Silva        5
Harmer                          b D'Silva        0
Aris            c R. Pritchard  b Beck          24
Milner          lbw             b Beck           4
Mitchell                        b Hill          29
Pickles*+       not out                         61
Gasgoine        c Khan          b D. Pritchard   0
Winkworth       c R. Pritchard  b J. Tom'son    21
Jethra          not out                          0
Extras          (4b, 3lb, 7w, 1nb)              15
40 overs
Total                                          159-8

D'Silva 9-3-24-3
Beck 9-1-28-2
D. Pritchard 9-0-29-1
Hill 6-0-23-1
R. Pritchard 5-0-29-0
J. Tomlinson 2-0-19-1

2-1 (Carter)
2-2 (Harmer)
7-3 (West)
14-4 (Milner)
43-5 (Aris)
84-6 (Mitchell)
85-7 (Gasgoine)
137-8 (Winkworth)

Unlike their normal format of 40 overs each skipper Hutt went along with the hosts request for a 20/20 style game.

Grendon batted first and on a slow outfield scored a useful 122-3 with openers S. Christie(49) and C. Kendrick(41n.o.) in good form.

Young Josh Whitehead took 2-11 and Luke Stafford 1-21. Town with ten men against Grendon's nine started slowly and lost opener Wilkinson(19) in the eighth over.

With the score at 48-1 after 12 overs Town had it all to do to win.

However a sparkling 72 n.o. from Dilshan Direkze saw Town win with an over to spare.

Dilshan was well supported by Josh Whitehead 16n.o.

Innings of Grendon Underwood

S. Christie     c Whitehead     b L. Stafford   49
C. Kendrick             not             out     41
P. Hiscock      c Wilkinson     b Whitehead     11
K. Kendrick                     b Whitehead      0
S. Cooper               not             out      8
                                Extras          13
                                Total          122-3

S. Hallett      4-0-16-0
L. Stafford     4-0-21-1
S. Brunning     3-0-37-0
R. Laird        4-0-12-0
J. Whitehead    2-0-11-2
D. Direkze      2-0-13-0
B. Cater        1-0-7-0

Innings of Buckingham Town 2nds

I. Wilkinson    c               b Hankers       19
D. Direkze              not     out             72
J. Whitehead            not     out             16
                                Extras          19
                                Total          126-1

C. Kendrick     4-0-19-0
S. Cooper       4-0-19-0
Hankers         4-0-21-1
Hiscock         4-0-20-0
Christie        2-0-31-0
K. Kendrick     0.3-0-9-0