Buckingham Town Cricket Club - July 12th 2008Buckingham Town vs BurnhamAndrew Holland writes:Town climb table with back to back wins!With many feeling a better performance would have seen Buckingham win their season opener against Farnham Royal there was a positive mood ahead of the return fixture. The toss was won by Buckingham who did the only option on a wet pitch, bowled first. Leo Churms set the ball rolling as he had the Farnham opener caught in just his 2nd over. Runs were a struggle and when Dewayne Bowden picked up 2 wickets in an over including the dangerous Shariffullah Naseri the score was 20-3 from 10 overs. Overseas player Krishmar Santokie arrived at the wicket and immediately gave some chances, first caught off a no ball before being dropped several times. At the same time boundaries were beginning to become a more regular occurrence. Javed Khan offered good support for Santokie as they put on 65 in just 10 overs. With lunch just around the corner though Bowden took 3 wickets for just 11 runs as he picked up his first 5 wicket haul of the season, Leigh Tomlinson taking his tally of catches in the match to 3. Santokie remained at the wicket though, bringing up his 50 from 44 balls so that at lunch the score was 108-6.The introduction of James Gear brought about the end of Santokies' innings after lunch as he was caught in the deep for 61. Greg Pearson then had the new batsmen lbw and the end of the innings was in sight. Naveed Zaigham chanced his arm and scored 21 from 21 balls to get the score past the 150 mark before Gear took 2 wickets in 3 balls to end the innings on 151 all out. With memories of a fine 130 from the reverse fixture Rob Large was full of confidence hitting 2 early boundaries. Santokie had him caught on the boundary for just 10 though before clean bowling Leigh Tomlinson next ball so that the score was 17-2. Jonny Cater also struck 2 boundaries before being bowled by Mohammed Amin and the score was 30-3. Dewayne Bowden and Dan Harris started to rebuild the innings, scoring at a good rate. Both reached 25 before Bowden was caught at mid off from Naveed Zaigham and Harris was run out in a silly mix-up. This was followed by proof that when you're out of form nothing goes for you as Stuart Parker was stumped when the keeper later admitted his foot never left the crease and James Tomlinson was on the wrong end of a close lbw. At the tea the score was 101-7, with Farnham Royal favourites. Greg Pearson and James Gear went out after tea knowing that time wasn't an issue they had 34 overs to score 51 runs. And apart from an early 4 from Gear they scored mainly in singles, not taking any risks and frustrating the bowlers. Slowly the runs required were less than 40, 30, 20 and then they were in single figures. Pearson struck 2 boundaries and it was 1 to win. The return of Santokie had Gear caught for a well made 16 before Jason Ell scored the winning single first ball to seal a fantastic victory for the home side and move them to 6th in the table. Pearson finished 27 not out.
Innings of Farnham RoyalSimpson c L. Tom'son b Churms 2 Khan c L. Tom'son b Bowden 23 Naseri lbw b Bowden 5 Bucknell lbw b Bowden 0 Santokie c Churms b Gear 61 Clayson* c Harris b Bowden 0 Sanford c L. Tom'son b Bowden 1 Sahdra c Harris b Gear 9 Amin lbw b Pearson 0 Zaigham c Churms b Gear 21 Boparai Not Out 0 Extras (16b, 6lb, 1w, 6nb) 23 41.4 overs Total 151 all outBowling figures Churms 5-1-10-1 Bowden 15-4-49-5 Ell 4-0-19-0 Pearson 12-5-32-1 Gear 5.4-2-19-3Fall of wickets 4-1 (Simpson) 18-2 (Naseri) 20-3 (Bucknell) 85-4 (Khan) 91-5 (Clayson) 96-6 (Sanford) 119-7 (Santokie) 119-8 (Amin) 151-9 (Zaigham) 151-10 (Sahdra) Innings of BuckinghamLarge* c Sahdra b Santokie 10 L. Tomlinson b Santokie 0 Cater+ b Amin 9 Bowden c Boparai b Zaigham 25 Harris Run Out (Sanford) 25 Parker st Sanford b Santokie 9 J. Tomlinson lbw b Zaigham 9 Pearson Not Out 27 Gear c Khan b Santokie 16 Ell Not Out 1 Extras (3b, 6lb, 9w, 3nb) 21 54.3 overs Total 152-8Bowling figures Santokie 16.3-3-58-4 Amin 8-3-34-1 Naseri 15-4-23-0 Zaigham 14-5-23-2 Khan 1-0-5-0Fall of wickets 17-1 (Large) 17-2 (L. Tomlinson) 30-3 (Cater) 76-4 (Bowden) 79-5 (Harris) 99-6 (Parker) 101-7 (J. Tomlinson) 151-8 (Gear)Buckingham won by 2 wickets Points: Buckingham - 25 Farnham Royal - 10 Oxford Downs vs Buckingham Town 2nd XIBob Hutt writes:Game cancelled due to heavy rain. Buckingham Town 3rd XI vs Twyford 2nd XIBob Hutt writes:Game cancelled due to heavy rain. |