Scorecard

Bamville CC Saturday 1st XI v St Albans Cricket Club 4XI on Sat 21 Jun 2025 at 13:00
St Albans Cricket Club Won by 104 runs

Match report The 4th XI ventured to the picturesque setting of Napsbury to face old foes Bamville, a side which had proved problematic to beat for the saints in the past. Early arrivals soon found that they would be playing on a seemingly completely unprepared pitch, lines marked on a very green and patchy piece of turf, with the prepared pitch marked out at 16 yards. Instructions were issued to not complain by captain Saunders and the 4th XI were to bat.

Hingston and Nisar were entrusted with opening the show with the plan to score early runs quickly. Both soon obliged, hitting early boundaries and profiting from some loose bowling from one opener. The other was a better bowler, and kept things tight at one end, but it would be the variation of the first opener who broke the opening stand, both Nisar and Hingston falling early. Wright was in at 3 and seemed to take a liking to the first change spinner who struggled in his early overs to find his length, multiple boundaries took Wright racing into the 30s before he was eventually caught trying one big shot too many and chopping on. A useful innings given the wicket. At the other end Deshpande rotated the strike and was joined by Davey, the two of them looking to build and use the plentiful overs left. It wouldn’t last long however, Deshpande caught driving a low full toss and Davey out looking to pull a bowler who had previously sent down three full tosses.

Drinks came, and after bought together what would go on to be the innings defining partnership. Haris and Shaw coming together with the score well below 100, the former having hightailed it from Wimbledon despite the delayed trains. It was Shaw who looked the most ashored early, hitting boundaries, defending well and rotating the strike where possible. At the other end Haris defended resolutely and put away the bad ball, the score ticking along well over the hundred mark. Haris would unfortunately be out bowled having added 28 to the score, a fine innings on his 4th XI debut. This brought to the crease Sunday Gun Husain who swang hard and hit boundaries quickly. Shaw would reach 38 before Walker on the sidelines would cast the death sentence, asking the scorer whether he was on for his half century, Shaw out the very next ball, Walker the next man in. A fine 38. Walker didn’t last long, caught for 2 with next man Saunders left stranded on an average boosting 2*, Husain on 14* at the other end.

The score of 170 looked very good on this wicket, with Shaw, Wright and Haris taking the plaudits on the day. The 4th XI feeling confident given their bowling attack.

Davey and Husain were given the new ball, the latter taking a wicket early into his spell to further drive the momentum in the 4s favour. His second and third soon followed, two of the wickets bowled and one a plumb LBW which the 4s were shocked to have awarded. At the other end Davey toiled away, finding multiple edges but unable to take a wicket until his 6th over, bowling the danger man. He was unlucky not to have a second, a “drop” going down behind the stumps only for Biceps to later claim it was first slips (there was no slip).

The first change saw Walker and Haris introduced, Haris bowling with considerable speed and control. But it would be Walker who found his way into the wickets first, drawing an edge from the set batsman before bowling the next. This spell produced two of the games more laughable village moments, the first coming when Wright decided to jump for a catch that was coming around chest height, the additional movement sending the ball straight to the floor and prompting a fielding change. The second coming when Nisar decided to simply ignore a dolly which was about 5 yards infront of him, safe to say that wouldn’t be acceptable at OA’s. Walker would have the last laugh though, taking a third wicket with another trademark swinging delivery.

Haris at the other end also found himself in the wickets, the first a sharp catch by Deshpande at cover before Haris cleaned up the tail with two bowled. A great bowling debut to match his batting.

The 4s comfortable winners and by far the better side, bouncing back well from last weeks defeat and setting themselves nicely into second in the table. Wright, Shaw, Haris, Husain and Walker the standouts but everyone contributed to a strong team performance.

(match report by Sam Davey)

St Albans Cricket Club 4XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
extras
TOTAL :
3nb 3w 1b 1lb 
for 9 wickets
8
169		        
Nauman Nisar ct Unsure b M Kalsi 14 15 2 93.33
Ben Hingston b M Kalsi 8 7 2 114.29 1
Andy Wright b O Shaikh 31 33 5 93.94
Prathamesh Deshpande ct E Ahmad b E Ahmad 13 27 2 48.15 1
Sam Davey ct Unsure b E Ahmad 9 8 2 112.50
Alfie Button ct Unsure b E Ahmad 3 13 23.08
John Shaw ct Unsure b V Lutra 38 55 5 69.09
Monis Ahmad Haris b S Ramzan 28 49 5 57.14
Md Altaf Husain Not Out  14 2
Andrew Walker ct Unsure b S Ramzan 1 1 100
Andy Saunders Not Out  2 4 50.0

Bamville CC Saturday 1st XI Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Manpreet Kalsi6.0034217.005.67
Muhammad Ahsan Javaid8.012300.002.88
Orangzaib Shaikh8.0026126.003.25
Emaad Ahmad8.0041313.675.13
Vijay Lutra7.0035135.005.00
Shahzad Ramzan3.00824.002.67

Bamville CC Saturday 1st XI Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
5nb 1lb 
for 10 wickets
6
65 (26.4 overs)		     
Amir Kureshi b A Husain 3 6 50.0
Shahzad Ramzan b A Husain 1 9 11.11
Kashif Farooq ct B Hingston b A Walker 13 28 2 46.43
Orangzaib Shaikh lbw A Husain 4 1 1 400
Shahzad Ahmed b S Davey 6 7 1 85.71
Emaad Ahmad ct P Deshpande b M Ahmad Haris 4 23 1 17.39
Iftikhar Hussain b A Walker 0 7 0
Anirudha Kubair b A Walker 18 19 4 94.74
Vijay Lutra b M Ahmad Haris 2 16 12.50
Manpreet Kalsi Not Out  8 2 2 400
Muhammad Ahsan Javaid b M Ahmad Haris 0 3 0

St Albans Cricket Club 4XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Md Altaf Husain6.001033.331.67
Sam Davey6.0122122.003.67
Monis Ahmad Haris8.031434.671.75
Andrew Walker7.031836.002.57