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Thursday, May 11, 2017
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FIXTURES
Friday, May 12
ROYAL LONDON ONE DAY CUP
South
Hampshire v Glamorgan.................................................
Saturday, May 13
THAMES VALLEY LEAGUE
Division One
Falkland v Stoke Green ...................................................
Division Two B
Thatcham Town v Beaconsfield ......................................
Division Three A
Cove II v Newbury...........................................................
Purley-on-Thames v Falkland II.....................................
Division Four B
Amersham III v Thatcham Town II.................................
Marlow II v Theale & Tilehurst ......................................
Division Five B
Falkland III v Maidenhead & Bray II .............................
Division Six B
Aldershot III v Purley-on-Thames II ..............................
Division Seven A
Newbury II v Thatcham Town III ....................................
Theale & Tilehurst II v Maidenhead & Bray III............
Division Eight A
Theale & Tilehurst III v Kew IV ......................................
Division Nine A
Thatcham Town IV v Kidmore End III............................
BERKSHIRE LEAGUE
Premier Division
Welford Park v Peppard Stoke Row...............................
Woodcote v Sulhamstead...............................................
Division One
Goring v Mortimer West End.........................................
Peppard Stoke Row II v Bradfield..................................
Sulhamstead II v Checkendon .......................................
Division Three
Bradfield II v Knowl Hill .................................................
Mortimer v West Reading III..........................................
Purley III v Sandhurst II..................................................
Division Four
Mortimer West End II v Falkland Development...........
Sulhamstead III v West Reading IV ...............................
Bye week Challenge........................................................
Shinfield II v Welford Park II..........................................
HAMPSHIRE LEAGUE
County Division Two
Redlynch & Hale v East Woodhay.................................
County Division Three
South Wilts III v Hungerford..........................................
County Four North
AWE Tadley v Wherwell ..................................................
Whitchurch v Ramsdell...................................................
Regional One North East
Ashford Hill v Kingsclere ................................................
East Woodhay II v Fair Oak III.......................................
Silchester v Old Basing III..............................................
Regional Two North East
Ramsdell II v Holybourne II...........................................
Regional Three North West............................................
Hungerford II v St Mary Bourne ....................................
Regional Three North East
Easton & Martyr W III v Ashford Hill II........................
OXFORDSHIRE CA LEAGUE
Division Four
West Ilsley v Dorchester.................................................
WEST OF ENGLAND PREMIER LEAGUE
Wiltshire Division
Royal Wootton Bassett v Great Bedwyn........................
WILTSHIRE LEAGUE
Division Four
Ramsbury v Chippenham III ..........................................
Division Seven
Great Bedwyn II v Corsham IV......................................
Sunday, May 14
ROYAL LONDON ONE DAY CUP
South
Surrey v Hampshire .........................................The Oval
UNICORN MINOR COUNTIES KO TROIPHY
West Division
Berkshire v Cornwall............................ Wokingham CC
FRIENDLY MATCHES
Aldermaston v Theale and Tilehurst II ..........................
Aldworth v The Trundlers ...............................................
Ashford Hill v Welford Park ...........................................
Chieveley v Inkpen..........................................................
Donnington v Purley.......................................................
Great Bedwyn v Swindon ...............................................
Mortimer v Bradfield.......................................................
Pangbourne v Highmoor ................................................
Theale and Tilehurst v Mortimer West End..................
Woolhampton v Sulhamstead ........................................
Tuesday, May 16
NORTH HANTS EVENING LEAGUE
Division One
Ramsdell v Basingstoke Hockey Club ..........................
Division Two A
AWE Tadley v Royal Naval Sports Club .......................
Oakley v Silchester..........................................................
Wednesday, May 17
ROYAL LONDON ONE DAY CUP
South
Hampshire v Sussex .......................................................
NORTH HANTS EVENING LEAGUE
Division Two B
Old Basing v Aldermaston .............................................
RED KITE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LEAGUE
Division One
Woodcote v Vodafone.....................................................
Woodhay Woodpeckers v Cold Ash ..............................
Woolly Badgers v Falkland.............................................
Division Two
Downlanders v Hungerford.............................................
Harwell International v E & W Hendred.......................
Thatcham Academy v Bell Inn Aldworth ......................
The Pirates v Wantage ....................................................
Division Three
Hampstead Norreys v Letcombe ....................................
Kingston Bagpuize v Challow & Childrey ....................
Metal Box v West Ilsley..................................................
Division Four
Blewbury & Wallingford v Yattendon............................
Evotec v Falkland II .........................................................
Sutton Courtenay v Steventon.......................................
Uffington v Quantel .........................................................
Cricket Fixtures
Best of the Week
FALKLAND’S Thames Valley League
top flight campaign got under way
with a penultimate over defeat at
the Marlow side that finished
immediately beneath them in last
season’s table.
The cloudy skies heralded a slow
start by the visitors after they had been
put in to bat and James Bird and
Danny Williams went for single figures
inside 10 overs before Jim Ettridge
joined Paul Jenkins and the pair
wasted no time in making 64 in the
same time before Mark Dozell made the
crucial breakthrough by dismissing
Ettridge for 27.
Six balls later, Falkland were in dire
straits when Jeremy Batty removed
Jenkins for 39 and they were soon
celebrating the running out of Khalid
Zafar to leave Falkland on 133-5 and in
desperate need of a big partnership.
Craig Williams (27) and Daminda
Kologula duly obliged, with the latter
performing the role of chief aggressor
as they put on 104 before Williams
departed, but with Kologula having
blasted his way to 92 it seemed likely
that Falkland could post a score
approaching 275.
Kologula’s eighth maximum brought
up his maiden century off only 77 balls,
but the innings ended with a whimper
as the final four wickets fell for only 13,
Kologula’s 108 supported by only three
double figure scores as Batty conceded
only 10 runs in as many overs and
Imran Nawaz snapped up 5-39 to swing
the game back towards the home side.
Marlow survived a couple of early
scares as openers Nawaz (34) and
Barney Hogg put on 64 before Jenkins
removed Nawaz, although pressure
grew only after Zafar entered the attack
and accounted for Nick Paskins after
he had made 25.
The pace of Saad Atlaf struck a blow
with the removal of Hogg for a
stubborn 40, but the visitors could not
build on the breakthrough as Graham
Paskins (20) added a brisk 58 with
Australian Mark Quamil, who then
shared in a stand of 55 with Kirk
Graham (18) that broke Falkland’s
spirit.
Despite a flurry of wickets, including
that of Quamil for 67, Marlow were
very much in control and were helped
by Falkland’s poor over rate as with
just nine required for victory, the home
side were awarded six penalty runs,
leaving Simon Carter (20 not out) and
partner Batty to pick off the final three
runs to see Marlow home with three
wickets and an over to spare, Zafar
claiming 2-25 and Atlaf 2-42.
Falkland open their home
programme on Saturday with the visit
of last season’s runners-up Stoke
Green.
KINGSCLERE got off to the best of
starts with a maximum points
return from their 194-run win at
Bishops Waltham III in the
Hampshire League’s Regional One
North East.
The visitors lost an early wicket but
were soon rolling with Ross Andrews
clearing the boundary six times in his
powerful 69 and being supported all
down the line by Steve Hanney (15) and
Terry Kreysa (19).
Mark Hurst picked up the mantle
with a solid 67 and with Freddie Gee
thrashing 60, a substantial innings was
built, Chris Hanney chipping in a
useful 36 and Jack Grove-White
remaining unbeaten on 12 as
Kingsclere posted an imposing 316-2.
The home side made a rapid start but
Gee's introduction to the attack saw
him take 3-17 to turn the game ’Clere’s
way and when Chris Hanney removed
Sammons for 43 for the first of his two
wicket, the game was effectively over.
Aiden Ferris took 2-11 and Phil
Gregory 2-8 in mopping up the tail as
Bishops were dismissed for 122.
’Clere set
off with
full marks
Purley deal Newbury
a first day setback
NEWBURY’S bid to go one better
than last season’s third place in
Division Three A of the Thames
Valley League did not go
according to plan at the start of
the new campaign.
They went down by 27 runs to
Purley at Northcroft to give the visi-
tors a good start to their campaign
after a win built upon Amit Rawal’s
century.
Purley skipper Patrick Allen
opted to bat first, although his side
struggled to get going against a
Newbury attack in which Rajeev
Hanabe made an early impression.
He claimed Allen’s wicket for a
dozen and George Wheeler for 10 in
a nine over stint that yielded 2-17,
and although James Denton made
35, two more wickets fell before
Rawal was joined by Andrew
Jackson to take charge.
They sent the total soaring to
236-5 with Rawal 116 not out after
the 52 overs and Jackson on 44,
giving Newbury 48 overs to turn it
around.
The early loss of Mark Hughes
was no help but Charlie Anstey and
Martin Walker were snapped up,
caught and bowled by Allen for 36 to
leave Newbury on 89-2.
Neil Farrow made a brisk 18,
Suryaprakash Sastry 33 and Ed
Uden and Hanabe got into two
figures as Newbury went into the
final eight overs needing 82 to win.
Skipper Kevin Mills hit out with
four boundaries in his 30, but the task
of finding 27 runs off 13
deliveries proved too great and
survival chances were ended as
Jackson claimed a late treble to finish
with 5-50, Allen claiming 3-60 and
Arjun Mathur 2-48 as Newbury were
all out for 209 with one ball to spare.
p Newbury II romped to a 154 run
win in their Division Seven A
opener away to Eversley III.
Skipper John Duncan chose to
bat first and his side answered the
call with openers Simon Digweed
(79) and Mike Beaumont (40) set a
pace followed down the order by
Sean Wilson (28), Amit Agrawal (32)
and James Worsley (20 not out) as
Newbury posted 232-5 before
declaring in the 47th over.
Matt Smith soon bagged a wicket
when Eversley responded, and he
went on to take 6-18 in 13
devastating overs. Trystan Williams
claimed 2-16 and Austin Keep and
Emily Cunningham a wicket apiece
as Newbury shot out the home side
for 78 inside 33 overs.
BATTING
R. DIMMACK (Theale & Tilehurst) v Sulhamstead III ....199
A. RAWAL (Purley) v Newbury ..................................................*116
D. KOLUGULA (Falkland) v Marlow...........................................108
A. JORDAN (East Woodhay II) v Rotherwick ITW ...........*100
S. SHARMA (Falkland III) v Boyne Hill II..................................88
T. FLACK (East Woodhay) v Ellingham .................................... *87
J. SEARANCKE (Mortimer WE) v Emmbrook-B’wood ......84
N. BENWELLL (Falkland II) v Chiswick Whitton..................81
B. COPEMAN (Thatcham II) v Stoke Green II .........................79
S. DIGWEED (Newbury II) v Eversley III....................................79
F. WALKER* (Ramsbury) v Royal Wootton Bass. II...........78
A. FRITZ (Mortimer) v Peppard SR III .........................................76
J. LAWRANCE (East Woodhay) v Ellingham .......................*75
J. SPAINGGAY (Theale/Tilehurst) v Wooburn N’kovians 73
J. DOOLE (Sulhamstead) v Theale & Tilehurst ......................71
R. LEWIS (Thatcham III) v North Maidenhead III ..............*70
R. ANDREWS (Kingsclere) v Bishops Waltham III..............69
M. HURST (Kingsclere) v Bishops Waltham III .....................67
J. MIZEN (Theale/Tilehurst III) v Hayes IV ............................. *65
J. WHITE (Theale/Tilehurst) v Wooburn Narkovians........ *65
F. TULLOCH (Hungerford II) v Michelmersh II ....................*64
T. SMITH (Bradfield) v Goring ..........................................................64
E. DACK (Bradfield II) v Welford Park II...................................*62
A. BELL (Hungerford II) v Michelmersh II.................................61
F. GEE (Kingsclere) v Bishops Waltham III ................................60
S. DUMMER (Ashford Hill) v Sherfield ......................................53
E. POCOCK (Thatcham III) v N. Maidenhead III.....................53
J. HELPS (Great Bedwyn II) v Lacock II ...................................*52
*-denotes not out.
BOWLING
R. LEWIS (Thatcham III) v N. Maidenhead III....................8-58
M. SMITH (Newbury II) v Eversley III.....................................6-18
A. JACKSON (Purley) v Newbury.............................................. 5-50
Newbur y’sopener Charles Anstey steers oneaway against Purley (19-1417C)
Penalty points add
up to a losing starter
THAMES VALLEY LEAGUE: Thatcham II
had to be content with a draw when
they entertained Stoke Green II in
Division Four B.
The visitors were steered to 298-6 in
the maximum 52 overs as Pavindar
Bhachu (120) and Gully Khan (69) cut
loose, and after Kieran Lynch (29), Rhys
Williams (47) and notable Ben Copeman
(79) had departed, Thatcham were left
playing out time to reach 179-5.
p FALKLAND III settled for a draw
in their Division Five B trip to Boyne
Hill II.
Robert Morgan and Leo Bangs made
60 and 59 respectively as the home side
reached 233-9, while Sunil Sharma’s 88
was Falkland’s main response as they
go to 188-9 in response, Jay Lloyd tying
down the rest with his 6-79 return form
22 overs.
p PURLEY II’s Division Six B game
with Sonning II ended in a draw after
Pete Rackley (38) and Chris Priestley
(44) led them to 179-9 in reply to the
visitors’ 228-7, built around Dan le
Marquand’s 87.
Draws all the way
Newbur y ’sMarkHughes pushes one
away against Purley (19-1417B)
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