Scorecard

St Albans Cricket Club 5XI v Old Albanian 4XI on Sat 08 Jun 2024 at 13:00
St Albans Cricket Club Won by 84

Match report On a brisk cool day at the Sandpit Astro, stand in skipper Winfield lost the toss and Saints were put into bat.

With a few changes in personnel from previous games a new opening pair of Speller and Knill-Jones was selected. After a couple of nice cuts, Knill Jones was bowled, followed next over by Speller. Kumar and Desphpande were in to steady things, only for Kumar and then Witty to follow, leaving Saints at 23 for 4 in the 14th over. Skipper Winfield was relieved of umpiring duties after a mammoth 1 over spell!, even batting at 9, fearing it would be a very early finish. The opening bowlers of OA bowled very tight and good lines, making runs hard to come by.

Desphpande was joined by veteran Vijender and they batted very sensibly to stem the flow of wickets and start to accumulate runs. At 73 for 4 at the 30 over mark, the skipper was keen for some acceleration, which the pair duly did, Vijender fell for a very important 34 and Desphande fell off the penultimate ball looking to accelerate and finished a fine knock of 67, with their partnership of 90 runs, laying the foundation for bowlers to target. A quick fire 17 from Suryavanish gave the momentum to Saints at the break with a very solid 152 for 7 off the 40 overs to defend.

Opening bowling duties was given to Killner, who started at great pace and did not slow down until his the last over of his 8 overs. He beat the bat multiple times and showed his expert slower ball 3 times to completely fox the batters, clean bowled and with another bowled wicket in his final, Killner finished with a very impressive 4 for 16. At the other end and 30 plus years the senior of his opening partner, Winfield toiled with an accurate line and length, significant swing beating the bat, but without any wickets 0 for 16. At 33 for 4 OA had a lot to do, which immediately became much harder as Milne and Suryavanish were brought on as change bowlers. After a 4 year absence since his last Saints game, Milne only needed a few balls to warm up and was finding in swing regularly to trouble the OA batters, collecting 2 bowled in his first over, then continuing to trouble the batters before reaching first ever 5 wicket haul for Saints, with a ridiculous 5 for 8 off just 5 overs.

Suryavanish was troubling the batters and was very unlucky not collect at least 1 wicket, with a strong LBW shout and clean bowled given not out from a late no ball shout. Berry and Speller came on to hopefully wrap things up, Speller without success and Berry bowling with very nice flight and turn to collect a well deserved winning wicket and figures of 1 for 9 from his 5 overs.

A good win, from a shaky start and many strong performances:
Andy Milnes 5 for 8
Prath Desphande 67
Finnlay Kilner 4 for 16

St Albans Cricket Club 5XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
2nb 12w 1b 2lb 
for 7 wickets
17
152
        
Andrew Knill-Jones b E Simcock 6 1 1
Jamie Speller b T Oliver 0
Praveen Kumar ct J Turner b T Oliver 4 1
Prathamesh Deshpande b S Bates 67 6
Ethan Witty ct J Tabor b A Iqbal 3
Uttam Vijender b J Tabor 34 2
Sudhanshu Suryavanshi st J Turner b I Simcock 17 3
Jude Berry Not Out  3
Tim Winfield Not Out  1
Andy Milnes  
Finlay Killner  

Old Albanian 4XI Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Elliott Simcock5.02919.001.80
Tom Oliver5.001125.502.20
Arshad Iqbal5.01515.001.00
Anil Virji5.03500.001.00
Vikas Narula5.001700.003.40
Mohsin Hassan4.002500.006.25
Jonathan Tabor4.0023123.005.75
Karl Turner3.001500.005.00
Ian Simcock2.0019119.009.50
Simon Bates2.0020120.0010.00

Old Albanian 4XI Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
3nb 12w 2b  
for 10 wickets
17
68 (30.2 overs)
     
Simon Bates b F Kilner 0
Vikas Narula b F Kilner 5
Joshua Turner b F Kilner 11
Karl Turner b F Kilner 9
Ian Simcock b A Milnes 0
Anil Virji Not Out  20
Tom Oliver b A Milnes 0
Jonathan Tabor b A Milnes 1
Elliott Simcock ct Knill Jones b A Milnes 4
Arshad Iqbal ct Kumar b A Milnes 0
Mohsin Hassan b J Berry 1

St Albans Cricket Club 5XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Finlay Killner8.021644.002.00
Tim Winfield6.021400.002.33
Sudhanshu Suryavanshi4.02300.000.75
Andy Milnes5.01851.601.60
Jude Berry5.20919.001.69
Jamie Speller3.011600.005.33