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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
Runs
M
B
4s
6s
SR
Ct
St
Ro
extras
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 name
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
Economy
Elliott Simcock
5.0
2
9
1
9.00
1.80
Tom Oliver
5.0
0
11
2
5.50
2.20
Arshad Iqbal
5.0
1
5
1
5.00
1.00
Anil Virji
5.0
3
5
0
0.00
1.00
Vikas Narula
5.0
0
17
0
0.00
3.40
Mohsin Hassan
4.0
0
25
0
0.00
6.25
Jonathan Tabor
4.0
0
23
1
23.00
5.75
Karl Turner
3.0
0
15
0
0.00
5.00
Ian Simcock
2.0
0
19
1
19.00
9.50
Simon Bates
2.0
0
20
1
20.00
10.00
Old Albanian 4XI Batting
Player name
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
extras
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 Name
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
Economy
Finlay Killner
8.0
2
16
4
4.00
2.00
Tim Winfield
6.0
2
14
0
0.00
2.33
Sudhanshu Suryavanshi
4.0
2
3
0
0.00
0.75
Andy Milnes
5.0
1
8
5
1.60
1.60
Jude Berry
5.2
0
9
1
9.00
1.69
Jamie Speller
3.0
1
16
0
0.00
5.33
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