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Stewkley Vicarage v Olney Town Cricket Club Olney Town CC 1st XI on Sat 21 Aug 2010 at 1:30pm
Olney Town Cricket Club Won by 156 runs

Match report Another excellent result which will take us into the last game with our future in our own hands. Against a weak Stewkley side it was important to do things well and get the result we needed.What followed was another all round excellent team performance, confirming the spirit in which we are currently playing.
Having lost the toss and being asked to bat it was important to put a good score on the board, which is exactly what we did. Current leading scorer Iain Keeping and the returning Mark Hallam put on another 50 plus opening stand before Hallam gave a catch trying to repeat a 6 from the previous over. Keeping remained firm before being caught in the cordon for a well made 26. Griffin and Hacking were undone by the wicket with 2 shooters before the stand of the game between the two luckiest batsmen on display took place, Stuart keeping giving a chance off his third ball when on 2 went on to make a very streaky but quick 63 from 44 balls before being run out by his partner Bates. Bates whilst riding his luck himslef played some delectable cover drives and included a big six over long on in his unbeaten 49 (note... the skipper had no knowledge of his closeness to his first club half century when declaring and bore no hard feeling regarding the run out). Brown came in sacrificed his wicket in the search for quick runs to enable the declaration, and with 6 overs remaining we declared on 232-8.
We started excellently in the field removing both openers in the first two overs, Keeping and especially Robo-leg Buster bowling good lines and upsetting the furniture. Wickets fell at a steady pace with Griff and DJ also getting in on the act with 3 wickets a piece from little off the bat, the latter finishing with 3-5 of 8 overs. We took the last wicket in significant gloom and given the forecast we were grateful to get 30 points and a full game in.
A quick special mention to Stewkley's 12th player, Mr B Eyes who mysteriously top scored with 31! Well done Hack, however he did produce a sublime bit of keeping to get rid of the dangerous Drakes, so we will let him off!

So on to next week where a win will guarantee promotion and a good few beers to follow!

Olney Town Cricket Club Olney Town CC 1st XI Batting
232 for 8
Player Name RunsCatchesStumpingsRun outs
Mark Hallam Caught  19
Iain Keeping Caught  26 1
Andy Griffin Bowled  11 1
Graeme Hacking Lbw  7 1
Stuart Keeping Run out  63
Paul Gallyot Bowled  1
Marcus Bates Not Out  49
Mike Brown Caught  14 1
Christian Smail Lbw  0
Dave Jeffery Not Out  10
Paul Smith  

Stewkley Vicarage Bowling

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Stewkley Vicarage Batting
76 for 10
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Olney Town Cricket Club Olney Town CC 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Stuart Keeping8.031025.001.25
Paul Smith7.031829.002.57
Andy Griffin8.04732.330.87
Dave Jeffery8.35531.670.59