Scorecard

St Albans Cricket Club 2XI v Cockfosters CC 1st XI on Sat 20 Jun 2026 at 12:00
St Albans Cricket Club Lost by 33 runs

Match report The 2nds went down to a 33 run defeat to a well motivated and marshalled Cockfosters side, having earlier conceded
29 wides and no balls.

At least one record was broken at this game : the largest land boundary (Canada vs the US) at 9000km was surely beaten by that
at Clarence Park cricket field on Saturday 20th June. For info ICC regs for a max cricket boundary is 95m.

The (almost) summer solstice was met with surely the longest time in the field for 50 overs, including a final 30 minutes under
punitive fielding restrictions (5 in the ring). Another record??

The extra effort in sapping heat likely impacted the subsequent batting performance where running myriad consecutive twos to
the Canadian border almost required player defibrillation.

Onto the cricket. Rory won the toss, and based on having an all seam attack, elected to bowl. Despite the track offering some
help, Saints yielded 253. Fielding was of generally high quality - especially Jitin's keeping. Sadly though the bowling was well below
par. Saints bled a perplexing 50 extras including 29 wides and no balls.

Post refueling at tea, Cockfosters bowled steadily and accurately, dominated by 30 overs of spin. The pitch was gripping - but
Saints accumulated steadily, Westy unfurling several crisp drives. Jimmy Rosson got the rough end of an LBW decision, advancing
down the pitch. Matt Howeson came to the crease and played a bedrock innings of 76 with the highest strike rate of the lead
batters. Several reverse sweeps quite befuddled the spin triplets. Not bad for a guy with a dicky ticker and broken thumb.

Wickets did however fall regularly as scoreboard pressure took its toll - at the death, Banksy and Winners (who for once had an
early night) enjoyed a flurry of calculated hitting. Entertaining stuff - at one stage Winners almost stood on point's toes for his
signature 'gub' shot to the Canadian boundary. But it was all in vain.

Champagne moment: Westy producing a crunching on drive to the pavilion early in his innings, pure class.

Lemonade moment: Well, there were a few. Rory holing out to deep square for a two ball duck after being cheered to the crease
by his female fans and the Cockfoster lads?

Or JC (having shown his batting prowess by stroking an elegant 50 two weeks ago in the Chess Valley), being utterly bamboozled
by a left arm wrist spinner with a 'swish' where bat and ball appeared to be in different time zones. Welcome to the Primary
Club.

This defeat was all about wides, wides and more wides, which has now become a worrying trend needing some work to reverse.

Cockfosters CC 1st XI Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
4nb 25w 7b 13lb 
for 9 wickets
49
253 (50.0 overs)		     
Will Edwards ct  Unsure b J Winfield 24 50 3 48.00
Daniel Stead ct  Unsure b J Curran 3 7 42.86
Sam Barker lbw  M Ahmad Haris 29 51 5 56.86
William Herbert b  J Winfield 0 2 0
Chris Holmes ct  Unsure b T Banks 78 99 5 2 78.79
Yasir Iqbal ct  Howeson b T Banks 21 24 1 1 87.50
James Stead b  A Chennells 2 13 15.38
Kieran Wetherill ct  Unsure b A Chennells 45 50 5 90.0
Killian Smallbone run out  (Unsure) 1 6 16.67
Sagar Kachwala Not Out  1 1 100
Saahil Fazlin Not Out  0 1 0

St Albans Cricket Club 2XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Joey Curran10.0240140.004.00
Aidan Chennells10.0139219.503.90
Thomas Banks10.0041220.504.10
Jacob Winfield10.0051225.505.10
Monis Haris7.0038138.005.43
Zach West3.002400.008.00

St Albans Cricket Club 2XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
extras
TOTAL :
1nb 11w 2b 7lb 
for 10 wickets
21
220		        
Zach West ct  S Fazlin b S Fazlin 38 71 4 53.52
James Rosson lbw  J Stead 7 16 1 43.75
Matt Howeson st  K Wetherill b S Fazlin 76 99 4 76.77 1
Rory Law ct  Unsure b S Fazlin 0 2 0
Monis Haris ct  S Fazlin b S Fazlin 9 15 1 60.0
Jithin Balan ct  Unsure b S Fazlin 24 34 2 70.59
Richard O'Toole b  W Herbert 4 8 50.0
Thomas Banks b  S Barker 15 16 1 93.75
Jacob Winfield Not Out  16 15 2 106.67
Joey Curran b  S Barker 0 1 0
Aidan Chennells b  S Barker 10 10 1 100

Cockfosters CC 1st XI Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
James Stead10.0033133.003.30
Sagar Kachwala5.002800.005.60
Sam Barker10.4038312.673.56
William Herbert8.0049149.006.12
Saahil Fazlin7.012454.803.43
Killian Smallbone7.003900.005.57

  • Umpire :
    Macca
  • Scorer :
    Us