Buckingham Town Cricket Club - August 23rd 2008

Town lose must win game

Cater went to his 50 straight after lunch before being caught behind off the bowling of Naqvi for 54. James Tomlinson and Bowden started to play their shots as the score climbed past 150 before both going in consecutive Naqvi overs. The final few overs failed to see the acceleration that Buckingham had hoped for with only Stuart Parker making a contribution as he hit an unbeaten 23 from 18 balls including a 6 off the final ball of the innings. The score finished on 190-6.

With their bowling attack badly depleted Buckingham managed to restrict the scoring at first due to some tight bowling from Bowden and Churms. Openers Ali Naqvi and Jim Ettridge batted sensibly without giving any chances and brought up the 50 in the fifteenth over. Unfortunately for the home team the introduction of spin back fired as boundaries began to come with regularity. Naqvi brought up his 50 from 70 balls and Ettridge soon joined him. At tea the score was 151-0 with just another 40 needed for Thatcham to win.

Thatcham took just 5 overs after tea to win the game with Naqvi going to a fine 100 from just 112 balls with 18 fours and a 6. Ettridge finished 75 not out.

Innings of Buckingham

L. Tomlinson    c Harland       b Bishop        30
Cater*+         c Ettridge      b Naqvi         54
Bowden                          b Naqvi         45
J. Tomlinson    c Ettridge      b Naqvi         15
Stafford                        b Naqvi          8
Parker          Not Out                         23
Lewis                           b Naqvi          2
Pritchard       Not Out                          2
Extras          (6b, 2lb, 3w)                   11
60 overs
Total                                          190-6

Harland 10-1-20-0
Naqvi 21-6-44-5
Bishop 21-3-85-1
Bird 8-0-33-0

74-1 (L. Tomlinson)
120-2 (Cater)
150-3 (J. Tomlinson)
157-4 (Bowden)
168-5 (Stafford)
178-6 (Lewis)

Innings of Thatcham Town

Naqvi           Not Out                 100
Ettridge        Not Out                  75
Extras          (2lb, 5w, 9nb)           16
38 overs
Total                                   191-0

Bowden 14-3-42-0
Churms 9-0-42-0
Stafford 6-0-44-0
D'Silva 6-1-28-0
J. Tomlinson 2-0-20-0
L. Tomlinson 1-0-13-0

Points:
Thatcham Town - 25
Buckingham - 1

Kimble elected to bat first but could only score 138 all out.

Opening bowlers Ryan Spragg 3-26 and Steve Brunning bowled well as Kimble struggled against them and after a tidy spell of 1-37 from 16 overs from Richard Pengelly skipper Dom Pritchard 2-35 and Chris Coates 3-14 cleaned the tail up. Buckingham made a good start with openers Matt Thatcher(28) and Adrian Johnson(33) and their good work was carried on by Graham Judd (35no) and Andy Thatcher(12no) as Town strolled home.

Innings of Kimble

R. Whitehead    c Johnson       b Spragg         7
A. Russell                    lbw Spragg         7
G. Kyson        c Judd          b Spragg        15
A. Swan                 run     out             21
D. Needham      c Thompson      b Pengelly       5
S. Agace                        b Pritchard     34
A. Sheppeck     c Thompson      b Pricchard      9
P. Spinks                       b Coates        11
J. Russell                      b Coates        10
E. Kent         st Johnson      b Coates         9
K. Morehouse            not     out              1
                                Extras           9
                                Total          138-10

R. Spragg       12-4-26-3
S. Brunning     7-0-22-0
R. Pengelly     16-4-37-1
D. Pritchard    8-1-35-2
C. Coates       3.1-1-14-3

Innings of Buckingham Town 2nds

M. Thatcher                   lbw Kent          28
A.Johnson                       b Whitehead     33
G. Judd                 not     out             35
A. Thatcher             not     out             12
                                Extras          34
                                Total          142-2

D. Needham      11-3-25-0
S. Agace        8-2-10-0
A. Russell      8-1-30-0
J. Russell      1-0-16-0
R. Whitehead    8-0-22-1
K. Morehouse    2-1-11-0
E. Kent         2-0-13-1

Skipper Neville Pritchard won the toss and elected to field.

On a difficult batting track Wallingford struggled throughout after Grist(26) and V.Emmett(32) had given them a patient start.

Town only used two bowlers and they were both in good form.

Stuart Helps took 1-79 from his 24 overs and Paul Sly a super 7-45 from his 23 overs as Wallingford made a modest 127-8.

Buckingham ground out an important win.

Nigel Norman(28) provided the anchor role and both John Talbot(32) and Stuart Helps(33) were in excellent form to see Town to victory. Callum Cater(14) did well with the bat also.

With two matches remaining Town's 3rds have an excellent chance of the title.

Innings of Wallingford 2nds

D. Grist                       c&b Helps        26
V. Emmett       c Cater          b Sly          32
V. Harwood                       b Sly           4
M. Cox          c Cater          b Sly           0
J.Hadland       c Talbot         b Sly          24
Prescott                         b Sly           0
Sergeant        c Talbot         b Sly          24
Allen          st Wilkinson      b Sly          11
R. Hadland              not     out              5
Rahulan                 not     out              2
                                Extras           3
                                Total          127-8

P. Sly          24-8-45-7
S. Helps        23-4-79-1

Innings of Buckingham Town 3rds

N. Norman                       b Richards      28
S. Helps                        b R. Hadland    33
J. Talbot                       b Allen         32
C. Cater                        b Rahulan       14
A. Peshavaria           not     out              6
R. Bridgman             not     out              5
                                Extras          10
                                Total          128-4

Allen           23-8-31-1
Prescott        8-3-22-0
R. Hadland      9-2-28-0
Richards        3.5-0-21-1
Rahulan         9-2-19-1