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Wooburn Narkovians Cricket Club
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Saturday 5th June 2010 | TVL Division 7B

Old Merchant Taylors 2nd XI

211 - 8

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Wooburn Narkovians 2nd XI

212 - 1

Wooburn Narkovians win by 9 wickets
Points: Wooburn Narkovians 20, Old Merchant Taylors 10
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Match Report

Match Report

The 2nds picked up their second win of the season with comfortable 9 wicket victory at Old Merchant Taylors. This is the final season of cricket at OMT’s Durrants ground before the builders move in, and Derek Milsom for one, will regret its demise. Chasing a modest 211, the Narks achieved their target with more than 5.2 overs to spare.



OMT’s square was rated the best in the Thames Valley League in 2009, and the teams were again presented with a perfect batting wicket. OMT, perhaps surprisingly, decided to bat on winning the toss, and started solidly against Wooburn’s seam/spin combination of John White and James Dolan. Bentall, who made big runs against Wycombe Dragons, fell early but Shah, and Magill added 77 for the second wicket.



Shah showed some enterprise, punishing the bad ball, but Magill was largely strokeless, unable to get bat on ball on many occasions, despite the near perfect batting conditions. After an excellent spell from John, Wahleed had his first bowl for around 9 months, and was soon replaced by Mani Sharma. At the other end, Pete Harper took over from James, and we gradually started to work our way through the OMT order.



Magill somehow contrived to reach a painstaking 50 in over two hours at the crease. It was only the arrival of Vallerius and Wingfield that injected some urgency to the OMT batting, and they managed to push the score past 200, which was cause for mild celebrations in the home camp. A final total of 211-8 was well under par in the conditions.



Wooburn’s openers, Angus and Derek, were soon into their stride against OMT’s slow bowlers with the old ball. The score had passed 50 before OMT took the new ball, by which time the batsmen were well set. Schofield was the only bowler to really cause problems, swinging the ball into the right-hander, but he could only manage five overs in the heat. Angus eventually fell for a well made 43.



With Alan Cuthbert attending to a call of nature, Chris Hall took his opportunity to help Derek add 119 for the second wicket and take Wooburn home. Chris batted beautifully for his unbeaten 54, while at the other end, Derek completed another fine hundred at Durrants with 17 boundaries. In a very tight division, this win took the 2nds up to the heady heights of 3rd place.

Scorecard

Old Merchant Taylors 2nd XI

Batter Runs Mins Balls 4s 6s SR
S. Shah c W. Hussain b M. Sharma 45 93 84 7 53.57
W.D. Bentall c W. Hussain b J. White 12 16 16 3 75.00
W. Magill c C. Hall b P. Harper 52 128 109 7 47.71
J. Schofield b M. Sharma 24 38 33 3 72.73
J. Vallerius run out () 25 25 2 100.00
D. Shanghgi b J. White 2 6 6 33.33
A.W. Wingfield b P. Harper 25 18 23 3 108.70
J. Mayer not out 9 6 150.00
D.W. Shah st A. Porter b P. Harper 1 2 50.00
A. Akhtar 0
Radhakrishmane 0
Extras 2nb 11w 3b 0lb 16
Total (52.0 overs) 211-8
Bowler Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Econ
J.D. White 13.0 3 53 2 4.1
J.C. Dolan 12.0 3 34 0 2.8
W. Hussain 2.0 0 14 0 7.0
M. Sharma 11.0 1 49 2 4.5
P.W. Harper 14.0 1 58 3 4.1
Fall of Wicket Batsman Out
17-1 W. Bentall
94-2 S. Shah
137-3 J. Schofield
155-4 Magill
159-5 Shanghgi
195-6 A. Wingfield
210-7 J. Vallerius
211-8 D. Shah

Wooburn Narkovians 2nd XI

Batter Runs Mins Balls 4s 6s SR
A. Porter c b J. Mayer 43 59 6 72.88
D. Milsom not out 103 135 17 76.30
C. Hall not out 54 59 5 91.53
A.J. Cuthbert 0
S.A. Savage 0
W. Hussain 0
K. Dolan 0
M. Sharma 0
J.D. White 0
J.C. Dolan 0
P.W. Harper 0
Extras 2nb 5w 1b 4lb 12
Total (42.4 overs) 212-1
Bowler Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Econ
Radhakrishmane 6.0 2 29 0 4.8
D. Shah 11.0 0 54 0 4.9
A. Wingfield 5.0 1 22 0 4.4
J. Schofield 5.0 2 11 0 2.2
J. Mayer 6.0 1 29 1 4.8
W. Bentall 4.0 0 30 0 7.5
A. Akhtar 3.0 0 18 0 6.0
Shanghgi 2.4 0 14 0 4.6
Fall of Wicket Batsman Out
93-1 A. Porter


Start Time: 13:30
Toss: Old Merchant Taylors won the toss and decided to bat.
Venue: Durrants, Old Merchant Taylors