Buckingham Town Cricket Club - September 9th 2007

Town win the cup!

Buckingham won the toss and chose to bat at Horton House. Having met O.N.'s in last years final, and lost, Buckingham were determined to win this time. A terrible start occurred though as Graham Judd was bowled for 0. Scoring was slow, and just as it picked up and the 50 arrived, Leigh Tomlinson was also bowled. Jonny Cater and Jimad Khan began the rebuilding and were successful as they reached 107-2 at the half way stage. Cater was then adjudged lbw for 33, followed by James Tomlinson being run out and the score was 113-4. Possibly the turning point of the match followed though as Khan and Robin Pritchard scored a run-a-ball partnership of 72. It was broken only when Khan went for 82 from 74 balls after 4 towering sixes. 44 came off the last 6 overs as Pritchard (21) and Beck (19) both contributed to finish the innings 230 all out in the last over.

In reply O.N.'s looked out of the game when Lawrence D'Silva and Steve Beck reduced them to 35-3 from the first 10 overs. Martin Cory tried to add some resistance with 22 from 15 balls, but fell to change bowler Matt Dipple. Steve Dekock and David Willey were perhaps the only hope for O.N.'s. They each scored 50 and kept the run rate tied with Buckingham's. Both then fell in consecutive overs though as Ben Stafford and Judd took one apiece. Willey falling to a fantastic diving catch on the boundary to Dilshan Direkze. They finished 189 all out with Judd taking 3 wickets.

Innings of Buckingham

L. Tomlinson                    b Parikh        17
Judd                            b Wilks          0
Cater*+         lbw             b Dekock        33
Khan                            b Willey        82
J. Tomlinson    run out                          5
Pritchard                       b Cory          21
Beck            run out                         19
Direkze         st P. Caunt     b Dekock         7
Stafford        st P. Caunt     b Cory           5
Dipple          not out                          2
D'Silva         run out                          5
Extras          (2b, 14lb,15w, 3nb)             34
39.5 overs
Total                                          230 all out

Wilks 6-1-37-1
Willey 9-0-48-1
Parikh 5-0-30-1
Dekock 8.5-3-29-2
Ali 2-0-18-0
Cory 9-0-52-2

2-1 (Judd)
57-2 (L. Tomlinson)
107-3 (Cater)
113-4 (J. Tomlinson)
185-5 (Khan)
193-6 (Prichard)
214-7 (Direkze)
222-8 (Beck)
223-9 (Stafford)
230-10 (D'Silva)

Innings of O.N.'s

Dekock          lbw             b Stafford      54
Newton          c Direkze       b D'Silva        3
S. Caunt        lbw             b Beck           4
Mellor                          b Beck           6
Cory            lbw             b Dipple        22
Willey          c Direkze       b Judd          50
Wilks                           b Judd           0
Ahmed           not out                         17
Parikh          st Cater        b Judd           4
P. Caunt+       run out (L. Tomlinson)           0
Ali             run out (J. Tomlinson)           0
Extras          (4b, 6lb, 13w, 6nb)             29
36.4 overs
Total                                          189 all out

Beck 9-0-49-2
D'Silva 6-0-22-1
Dipple 4-0-28-1
Judd 9-0-51-3
Stafford 8-0-24-1
J. Tomlinson 0.4-0-5-0

17-1 (Newton)
27-2 (S. Caunt)
35-3 (Mellor)
74-4 (Cory)
156-5 (Dekock)
157-6 (Wilks)
172-7 (Willey)
183-8 (Parikh)
183-9 (S. Caunt)
189-10 (Ali)