Buckingham Town Cricket Club - April 26th 2008Buckingham Town vs OxfordAndrew Holland writes:After a rusty performance to start the season the week before Buckingham travelled to Oxford with only 10 players. They lost the toss and were put into bat in a time game. From the first ball the openers looked positive with Rob Large and Leigh Tomlinson adding 28 in 7 overs. The attacking attitude undid Large though as he was caught for 19. Jonny Cater came into join Tomlinson and continued the fast scoring. He rode his luck with a several chances being put down, but kept going to bring up his 50 from 42 balls. Either side of the drinks break both Tomlinson (35) and Cater (77) fell to leave Buckingham at 138-3. The rate slowed after the wickets and the visitors consolidated to push the score up beyond 200 with Stuart Parker contributing 40. At tea Large was able to declare with the score on 215-7 from 47 overs. In reply the home side started slowly as, in the fourth over, Jason Ell took 2 wickets in 3 balls. Fox and Thomas began to rebuilding process but runs were hard to come by and at the start of the last hour the score had crept to 79-2 from 23 overs. James Gear snapped up Thomas soon after that and the game looked destined for a draw. It was in the 36th over with the score on 126 that Fox brought up his 50 from 114 balls in what was a disappointingly negative approach according to his team-mates. It was in the last 8 overs that the game brightened up though as Fox fell for 68 and Simon Gray for a well made 48 from 58 balls as Oxford hit 55 runs to end on 181-5. Innings of Buckingham TownLarge* c Swinburne b Clark 19 L. Tomlinson c Absolon b Beer 35 Cater+ c Fox b Leach 77 Parker c Beer b Absolon 40 J. Tomlinson b Absolon 12 Gear c Leach b Clark 12 Pengelly Not Out 9 Ell lbw b Clark 1 Extras (3b, 3lb, 4w) 10 47 overs Total 215-7 dec.Bowling figures Clark 9-0-51-3 Beer 13-3-53-1 Absolon 13-0-59-2 Leach 5-0-23-1 Fox 4-1-7-0 Gray 3-0-16-0Fall of wickets 28-1 (Large) 125-2 (L. Tomlinson) 138-3 (Cater) 187-4 (J. Tomlinson) 198-5 (Parker) 206-6 (Gear) 215-7 (Ell) Innings of OxfordFox b Large 68 Markon+ b Ell 4 Lawton-Smith c Cater b Ell 0 Thomas c Parker b Gear 31 Gray c J. Tomlinson b Large 48 Alderson Not Out 16 Swinburne Not Out 3 Extras (1b, 2lb, 2w, 6nb) 11 44 overs Total 181-5Bowling figures D'Silva 6-2-19-0 Ell 7-2-14-2 Spragg 8-2-31-0 Gear 10-2-29-1 Large 8-0-43-2 Pengelly 5-0-42-0Fall of wickets 13-1 (Markon) 13-2 (Lawton-Smith) 79-3 (Thomas) 143-4 (Fox) 176-5 (Gray)Match Drawn Buckingham Town 2nd XI vs Oxford 3rd XIBob Hutt writes:Town's 2nds lost by 3 runs to Oxford 3rds in a close game. Oxford batting first scored a respectable 161-9 from their 45 overs. All Town's bowlers did well especially Steve Brunning 2-34. Keeper Robin Pritchard had 4 victims and Matt Thatcher 2-32 and Dom Pritchard 3-22 kept the run rate down. In reply Town lost Mike Taylor for a duck but Matt Thatcher(33) and Graham Judd(32) were solid before Russell Thompson(47) took over as Town looked likely winners. However Oxford's Jon Finch 7-26 ripped the innings apart as Oxford stole victory. Young Josh Whitehead batted well for his 15 not out. Innings of Oxford 3rds
M. Picknett lbw Brunning 6
C. Jackson c R.Pritchard b Judd 2
W. Smith lbw D.Pritchard 61
M. Sheehan b M.Thatcher 39
J. Davis c R.Pritchard b M.Thatcher 11
A. Rushworth c R.Pritchard b D.Pritchard 0
C. Biel run out 0
A. Hall st R.Pritchard b Brunning 4
A. Symons not out 5
J. Finch lbw D.Pritchard 5
K. Nawaz not out 0
Extras 26
Total 161-9
Bowling figures
S. Brunning 10-1-34-2 G. Judd 6-0-10-1 B. Stafford 10-2-33-0 P. Sly 6-1-16-0 M. Thatcher 7-0-32-2 D. Pritchard 6-1-22-3 Innings of Buckingham Town 2nds
M. Thatcher lbw Symons 33
M. Taylor c Biel b Nawaz 0
G. Judd b Finch 32
R. Pritchard c Jackson b Finch 7
R. Thompson lbw Finch 47
A. Peshavaria run out 2
J. Whitehead not out 15
D. Pritchard b Finch 0
B. Stafford c Biel b Finch 0
S. Brunning b Finch 0
P. Sly c Hall b Finch 9
Extras 12
Total 158-10
Bowling figures
K. Nawaz 3-0-10-1 A. Symons 15-2-49-1 M. Sheehan 5-0-29-0 J. Finch 13.1-5-26-7 A. Rushworth 6-0-36-0Oxford 3rds won by 3 runs |