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Olney Town Cricket Club Olney Town CC 2nd XI v Milton Keynes 2nd XI on Sat 17 Jul 2010 at 1:30pm
Match was Drawn

Match report 2nd XI fall 3 short of victory

Saturday saw the 2nd XI clutch a draw from the jaws of victory. MK Village were inserted and things went well as 88-1 became 111-6 and ultimately 163 all out. We held five catches - including one from Ben Brown who actually looked almost athletic in the field, and one by Guts who will hopefully re-find his Flintoff form in the slips. But we also dropped five - something to work on. Star of the bowling was the aforemention Bream - bagging 6.4-0-25-4. A frustrating partnership between Fairbrother and Grantham late cutting the ball through thirdman was eventually restricted and we kept plugging away to leave a chaseable target of 164.

Tea was superb, absolutely superb. And having bowled my first ten over spell, gratefully received. I don't what I object to more, being told to get to the back of the tea queue or the back of the batting order...

Batting started well with Dave Hurley (74) adding to his totals and Ben Cadigan (9) and Tony Chaproniere (17) looking comfortable before getting out. Wickets continued to fall, however, and the run rate waivered between 4 and 5 runs per over as the 44th approached.

Into the final over and Oli smashes the third ball to the boundary to leave three to win. A mix up with the running saw Ben Brown run out leaving two balls, which unfortunately we couldn't away - so a frustrating draw meant sharing the points and leaving us 2 ahead of Village in second place in the league.

It's going to be a tight run-in but we just have to focus on getting as many points as we can from every game - winning would be the best way of ensuring that!

Milton Keynes 2nd XI Batting
163 for 10
Player name Runs
J Newman Caught  Jewson b Knowles 7
N Fairbrother Caught  Knowles b Filip 39
S Grantham Caught  B Brown b James 30
M Hood Bowled  Filip 4
R Davies Bowled  B Brown 10
M Ahmadza Caught  S Griffin b James 5
B Warren Caught  G Brown b B Brown 9
J Harley Bowled  b B Brown 20
R Archaria Bowled  JHurley 9
L Grantham Bowled  B Brown 11
R White Not Out  4

Olney Town Cricket Club Olney Town CC 2nd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Oli Knowles10.0131131.003.10
Jon Hurley7.0128128.004.00
Iain James10.0029214.502.90
Ray Filip10.0243221.504.30
Ben Brown6.402546.253.75

Olney Town Cricket Club Olney Town CC 2nd XI Batting
161 for 8
Player Name RunsCatchesStumpingsRun outs
Dave Hurley Run out  74
Ben Cadigan Lbw  R White 9
Tony Chaproniere Bowled  L Grantham 17
Jon Hurley Bowled  L Grantham 6
Gary Brown Bowled  J Harley 6 1
Jack Jewson Lbw  S Grantham 14 1
Stuart Griffin Bowled  R White 8 1
Oli Knowles Not Out  7 1
Ben Brown Run out  3 1
Iain James Not Out  0
Ray Filip  

Milton Keynes 2nd XI Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
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