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St Albans Cricket Club 2XI v Ampthill Town II on Sat 21 May 2022 at 12:00
St Albans Cricket Club Won by 9 Wickets
Match report
With self-proclaimed "supreme leader" Coulman unavailable due to attending a wedding, it was left to the old hands of Matt Howeson to lead the 2s at Clarence Park in pursuit of back to back wins. Having successfully completed the toss (and then even started the game on time), the 2s were asked to field, with Howeson deploring his men to "wipe the smug looks off" Ampthill's faces given the good looking deck prepared by Mr Caley.
St Albans started well, and were unlucky to be wicketless through the early stages of the innings, with two drops in the cordon off the bowling of May, and White causing all sorts of trouble for their right-handed opener at the other end. Indeed, it was White who finally put said batsman out of his misery, nibbling one through the gate -- an archetypal dismissal in the middle of an archetypal spell.
It was Sammy Kumar who was next in the action, with smart catches from O'Toole and then Caswell to remove Ampthill's dangerous looking left-handed opener who top scored with 39. Despite the odd poor ball from all parties, the Kumar-Hall-Murphy spin axis generally bowled well, producing wickets at timely moments when partnerships were just beginning to develop. This included the St. Columba's Holy Moment of the Day, with Murray looking as if he had just seen an act of God after taking a smart catch high to his left at mid-wicket. Other notable moments included some heart-in-mouth and ball-on-floor juggling from Caswell and O'Toole respectively off the bowling of Hall. Despite some surprising lower order cameos which took Ampthill to 191-8 off their 50 overs, St Albans were still confident in their ability to chase it down.
And confident they should have been, as Adil Sharif had clearly had his Weetabix that morning, putting on a clinical batting display in an innings of 118* and secure a million fantasy cricket points. It is rare for an innings to revolve almost entirely around one batsman, but this was very much the case as Sharif ruthlessly punished one bad ball after another. Howeson (34*) sensibly played second fiddle to Sharif after West padded back a straight one and enjoyed a long period of subsequent wallowing on the sidelines. Sharif played a serious of glorious strokes, including a lofted extra cover drive to reach his 50. One dropped chance was his only lifeline and he made Ampthill pay the price as he cruised his way to a maiden St Albans hundred and a 9 wicket victory for the Saints with almost 20 overs to spare.
Ampthill Town II Batting
Player name
Runs
M
B
4s
6s
SR
extras
TOTAL :
1nb 16w 2b 11lb
for 8 wickets
30
191 (50.0 overs)
C Hawkins
b S White
10
S Morral
ct Caswell b S Kumar
39
S Ali Khan
ct R O'Toole b S Kumar
8
D Bennett
ct Caswell b Murphy
31
D Massa
ct Murray b A Murphy
21
L Archer
ct Murphy b J Hall
20
B Parsons
ct Caswell b J Hall
3
D Draycott
b S White
7
D Ballinger
Not Out
7
R Blunt
Not Out
15
N Welton
St Albans Cricket Club 2XI Bowling
Player Name
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
Economy
Billy May
10.0
0
49
0
0.00
4.90
Simon White
10.0
2
26
2
13.00
2.60
Jonny Hall
10.0
1
30
2
15.00
3.00
Sammy Kumar
10.0
0
34
2
17.00
3.40
Adam Murphy
10.0
0
39
2
19.50
3.90
St Albans Cricket Club 2XI Batting
Player Name
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
Catches
Stumpings
Run outs
extras
TOTAL :
25w
for 1 wickets
25
193
Adil Sharif
Not Out
118
91
22
129.67
Zach West
lbw D Bennett
18
29
2
62.07
Matt Howeson
Not Out
34
50
4
68.00
Jonny Hall
James Caswell
3
Richard O'Toole
1
Stuart Murray
1
Billy May
Adam Murphy
1
Simon White
Sammy Kumar
Ampthill Town II Bowling
Player name
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
Economy
N Welton
5.0
0
32
0
0.00
6.40
D Bellinger
7.0
0
23
0
0.00
3.29
D Bennett
4.0
0
27
1
27.00
6.75
R Blunt
4.0
1
23
0
0.00
5.75
S Ali Khan
3.0
0
14
0
0.00
4.67
D Draycott
4.0
0
41
0
0.00
10.25
D Massa
3.2
0
22
0
0.00
6.60
Umpire :
Macca
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