Buckingham Town CC: Weekend round-up 24th & 25th July 2021
1st XI – Report by Andrew Holland
Buckingham travelled to Henley on Saturday, and after winning the toss opted to bat first.
Henley started the stronger as the opening bowlers of Tom Nugent and Simon Wheeler picked up a wicket apiece in the early exchanges to reduce their visitors to 34 for 2. Michael Wells looked in good touch, carrying on his form from the previous week, and he led the recovery alongside Adam King. The pair put on an unbeaten 60, Wells reaching his half-century from 83 balls, as Buckingham went to lunch at 94 for 2.
Euan Woods made the breakthrough after lunch as he had King caught on the boundary for 29. Shortly after that Harry Jordan trapped Wells lbw for 64. Another wicket apiece for both Woods and Jordan followed and Buckingham had been reduced to 133 for 6. Shane Shillingford and Adam Bone began to rebuild the innings, slowly at first, and then speeding up as the overs began to run out. They put on 60 before Bone was caught behind off Jordan for 25. Shillingford fell in the penultimate over for 48 as Buckingham finished on 213 for 9. Jordan was the pick of the bowlers with 4 for 47.
Matt Rowe started the Henley run chase positively, taking the attack to the Buckingham bowlers. He scored 40 from 43 balls in an opening partnership of 66 with Michael Williams, and was looking comfortable when he edged Shillingford to slip. Skipper Michael Roberts came in at number 3, and alongside Williams saw the hosts through to the tea break with the score 99 for 1.
Buckingham needed early wickets to fight back into the game, but they were unable to do as the Henley pair dominated after the break. Williams was the first to bring up his half-century (87 balls) with Roberts following with his own (69 balls). They put on 106, and took their side to within 50 of victory when Buckingham brought Sikandar Rizwan into the attack and he broke the stand by dismissing Williams for 67. Richard Morris hit a quick-fire 15 before holing out on the boundary off Shillingford, with the new man Woods (10 not out off 5 balls) hitting the winning runs as Roberts top scored to finish 79 not out.
Buckingham
H. Syed c Woods b Wheeler 0 (14)
M. Wells lbw b Jordan 64 (118)
L. Tomlinson* b Nugent 10 (38)
A. King+ c Williams b Woods 29 (77)
J. Deal lbw b Jordan 15 (28)
S. Shillingford c Rowe b Woods 48 (50)
S. Rizwan st Davison b Woods 1 (3)
A. Bone c Davison b Jordan 25 (46)
S. Beck c Watson-Smyth b Jordan 2 (5)
P. Barry Not Out 2 (3)
D. Bryce Not Out 5 (2)
Extras (4b, 5lb, 3w) 12
Total 213-9
64 overs
FoW: 5-1 (Syed, 3.4); 34-2 (Tomlinson, 14.6); 100-3 (King, 38.3); 113-4 (Wells, 43.2); 132-5 (Deal, 47.4); 133-6 (Rizwan, 48.1); 193-7 (Bone, 61.2); 205-8 (Shillingford, 62.5); 206-9 (Beck, 63.1)
T. Nugent 18-3-46-1 (1w)
S. Wheeler 5-2-12-1
H. Jordan 12-2-47-4 (2w)
F. Watson-Smyth 7-0-24-0
E. Woods 22-5-75-3
Henley
M. Williams c Tomlinson b Rizwan 67 (133)
M. Rowe c Wells b Shillingford 40 (43)
M. Roberts* Not Out 79 (100)
R. Morris c Barry b Shillingford 15 (14)
E. Woods Not Out 10 (5)
Extras (2lb, 3nb) 5
Total 216-3
48.5 overs
FoW: 66-1 (Rowe, 13.6); 172-2 (Williams, 41.2); 203-3 (Morris, 46.4)
D. Bryce 9-0-43-0
M. Wells 4-0-26-0 (1nb)
S. Shillingford 21.5-3-83-2 (1nb)
J. Deal 9-1-41-0 (1nb)
H. Syed 1-0-8-0
S. Rizwan 4-0-13-1
Henley win by 7 wickets.
Points:
Buckingham – 6 points
Henley – 25 points
Reports by Bob Hutt
Buckingham Town CC 2nd XI had a two wicket victory over visiting Wolverton Town 1sts in a high scoring match which could have gone either way.
Wolverton batting first lost an early wicket but recovered well thanks to Mohmood(49) and Akhlaq(71) before both were dismissed by
Greg Liebenberg who finished with 2-27. Dom Pritchard took 3-63 and Arvid Sharma 2-27. runs from Raja 35, Lea De Abreu 29 and
Ben Boddy 27 not out saw Wolverton declare on a useful 240-7.
After losing an early wicket skipper Alex O’Dell (24) and Ryan Bell (40) steadied the boat but wickets fell cheaply and with Buckingham at 136-6 Wolverton were favourites. However the match winning innings for Buckingham came from Greg Liebenberg(92) who hit thirteen fours and one six in an excellent batting performance.
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He was dropped a couple of times( an expensive miss for Wolverton). He was well supported by Dom Pritchard(32) and Arvid Sharme 9 not out and Jason Ell 7 not out saw the home side win.
For the visitors Rayner-Thompson bowled well taking 4-69 from 14 overs.
In a low scoring match Buckingham Town’s 4th XI beat Oxford 3rds by 38 runs.
Batting first, Buckingham 4th struggled and apart from a good knock from Dan Bailey(36) with support from Lumb (12) collapsed to 59-6. Lower order batsmen Matt Dipple(29) and skipper Dane Tuttlebee(17) scored valuable runs as they reached a modest 130 all out. For Oxford Baldock 3-23 and Hamid 3-20 bowled well.
In reply Oxford also collapsed to 49-8 A.Ahmed(18) and Saqib 38 not out were the only players to reach double figures as Josh Stigar took 3-15.
Matt Dipple, Ryan Spragg and Chris Petrie all had a brace of wickets each with Luke Tory having one wicket.
Buckingham’s Sunday XI beat Collingtree CC by just five runs in a match where the result could have gone either way.
In a 35 over per side friendly Buckingham won the toss and their openers made a good start. Greg Liebenberg hit a quick 25 but the backbone of the innings came from his partner Sikandar Rizwan who retired with 50 not out. Town closed on a respectable 146-7 with Anant Peshavaria (11), Adrian Freemen(16) and young Joe Fallon(10) reaching double figures.
For Collingtree skipper G. Jones and G. Ray too a brace of wickets.
The visitors from Northants seemed set for victory at 105-4 but lost wickets quickly and finished five runs short of their target closing on 141 all out.
A very tidy spell of bowling by Riswan 3-16 swung the game Town’s way and youngsters Joe Fallon, aged 13, took 2-17 from seven overs and twelve year old Will Rogers did well with 2-10
