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St Albans Cricket Club Sunday 1st XI v Crouch End 1st XI on Sun 11 Jun 2023 at 13:00
St Albans Cricket Club Lost By 7 Wickets

Match report The Sunday 1’s were back to the wonderful chess valley league after a not-so-successful t20 outing last week. Welcoming Crouch End CC to Clarence Park.

Resuming his good tossing form, the saints were relieved to be batting first on a scorching day.

A poor start losing the early wickets of stu moxy and Howse. Howse was very apologetic to the skipper explaining how he never plays attacking shots and how disgusted he was in himself for swiping across the line! Thankfully, due to technical difficulties, the start was not live-streamed on YouTube. This left Westy and Simms at the crease; the score 29-3. Both batting sensibly punishing the bad ball and bringing up the 50s applauded in good time. Between overs, both stated how good of a chance this would be to ton up. Unfortunately, this led to Westy’s departure for a very important 56. Bringing the inform Tom Wilton to the crease! Unfortunately, his stay was brief, proving scoring runs on Saturday and Sunday is almost impossible. All the while Simms was now in the mid 70’s although he was becoming increasingly frustrated as he impressively hit fielder after fielder resulting in numerous bat slaps to the pads. A partnership with Lawrence in which they decided not to hit boundaries and for some reason run numerous 2’s, 3’s and 4’s on one of the hottest days of the year meant a very tired Simms had his maidan 100 for the club before deciding that was enough and getting out the very next ball, well-batted sir. Murph then entered scooping and reverse sweeping to great effect bringing the Saint's total to 241 not a bad effort from 29-3 but with a very short boundary, one side may be slightly under-par.

Berry and Curran were given the new ball and both started well however the Crouch End openers made it very apparent they were in a hurry and made a rather fast start. The skipper not helping proceedings dropping a snick off JC low to his right. Berry made the breakthrough after Lawrence told Westy to come in from Long on, the next ball the dangerous opener chips one right to him. However, Crouch End was 109-1 at the first drinks (15 overs). This led to the introduction of Stu “Warne” Murray who was the standout of the bowlers, unlucky to only get 1 wicket, proving difficult to play and not giving the Crouch End batsmen many bad balls. Stu would’ve had two if it wasn’t for Berry deciding to pluck the ball beautifully out of the sky with his foot rather than hands. Murph’s master plan of two catching men at short cover forced another breakthrough. However, Crouch End were always comfortable, well above the required rate and despite efforts from a passing dog who decided to leave a present on the outfield to halt proceedings they chased the total with 6 overs to spare and 7 wickets to spare.

A good effort from the Saints with the bat, notably from Simms and Westy. The less said about the bowling and fielding the better.

St Albans Cricket Club Sunday 1st XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
2nb 7w 5b 1lb 
for 7 wickets
15
241		        
Stuart Murray ct N Shah b K Natu 0 2 0
Zach West ct H Weymouth b P Jagani 56 78 5 71.79
Moksudul Islam lbw K Natu 6 12 1 50.0
Matt Howeson b K Natu 13 22 59.09
George Sims ct Unsure b N Shah 100 115 10 86.96
Tom Wilton lbw P Jagani 1 2 50.0
James Lawrence Not Out  35 31 1 112.90
Adam Murphy run out  (Unsure) 15 9 1 166.67
Jacob Winfield  
Lucas Berry  
Joey Curran  

Crouch End 1st XI Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Kailesh Natu6.002137.003.50
Robert Seymour5.002700.005.40
Nilesh Patel9.003900.004.33
Harry Weymouth7.005600.008.00
Pranay Jagani10.0045222.504.50
Niren Shah4.0023123.005.75
Anant Bhargava3.002400.008.00

Crouch End 1st XI Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
 
for 3 wickets
0
242 (39.1 overs)		     
Nilesh Patel ct Unsure b L Berry 41 5 1
Asif Salim ct Unsure b A Murphy 43
Pranay Jagani Not Out  80 8
Kailesh Natu b S Murray 43
Ronak Shah Not Out  11 1
Jeel Patel  
Robert Seymour  
Harry Weymouth  
Niren Shah  
Anant Bhargava  
   

St Albans Cricket Club Sunday 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Lucas Berry6.0043143.007.17
Joey Curran6.004000.006.67
Jacob Winfield3.002100.007.00
Adam Murphy5.0023123.004.60
Stuart Murray10.0054154.005.40
Zach West3.001900.006.33
Moksudul Islam6.002400.004.00

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