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Sonning 4 v Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Crowthorne Saturday 2nd XI on Sat 08 Jun 2013 at 1:30
Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Won by 70 runs

Match report The Seconds were at sunny Sonning on Saturday. [Too many ‘S’ words – ed.] This was an important match – OK, they’re all important, but Crowthorne were lying third in the table before play, with Sonning not far off the leading pack.

It was a warm day, complete with flat track, fast outfield and short boundaries. Conditions were made for batting. With Monty the only fit seamer in the Crowthorne side, the ideal scenario was for us to bat first and put pressure on Sonning by posting a large total. That would give us some runs to play with when rotating our battery of slow bowlers.

The plan worked like a dream. It’s tempting to say ‘wet dream’, but that would have been last year. [Keep it clean – ed.]. We won the toss and the batsmen duly delivered, with classy fifties from Junior Stent and Nick McDonagh and a brutal 43 from Dave ‘Swashbuckle’ Shaw seeing Crowthorne to 248. It should have been nearer 300, but apart from a handy 20 from Tim Garrett, the middle order wilted in the sun and we were bowled out in 42 overs.

No matter. The Crows were in charge. We kept the old ball and took all the pace off it by opening up with the slowest bowler on either side, Tony McDowell. Bemused by the wily old fox’s mesmerising line and length – and the ball’s apparent failure to arrive – catches duly went up (in some cases down) and wickets fell steadily. With Tony taking the first three (4 for 30 in all), it was over to Ant Avrili to spin a web of his own. Bowling with a cool head when under attack from Sonning’s aggressive batsmen, he ended with 5 for 50, ably supported by excellent catches by Swashbuckle (2) and McDonagh. Monty’s fine effort as our lone seamer should not go unmentioned, giving us control when we needed it and also picking up an important wicket.

Sonning succumbed swiftly [‘S’s again – ed.] all out in 36 overs for 178, and handing the Crows maximum points.

A superb team effort from the Crows, with fantastic spirit in the side.

Match Details:
Skipper: T Nash
Keeper: R Stent
Debuts: T Jarrett
Baggy Green: n/a
Ducks: N Payne, T McDowell
50s: R Stent 57, N McDonagh 57
6s: N McDonagh
5-fors: A Avrili 5-50
Man of the Match: A Avrili

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Crowthorne Saturday 2nd XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
extras
TOTAL :
2nb 26w 6b 4lb 
for 10 wickets
38
248		        
Robin Stent ct A Driver b. N Tahir 57 9
Tom Nash lbw W Tahir 17 2 1
David Shaw b N Tahir 43 8 2
Nick McDonagh ct A Driver b. A Saleem 57 8 1 1
Ant Avrili b R Yousef 5 1 1
Tom Jarrett Run out  4 1
Nigel Payne ct ? b. J Fitton 0
Tim Garrett ct ? b. D Anderson 20 3
Marshall Miller ct ? b. D Anderson 7 1
Tony McDowell MBE lbw A Saleem 0
James Carson Not Out  0

Sonning 4 Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Waqas Tahir7.0038138.005.43
Naqash Tahir12.0068234.005.67
Jack Nott4.003500.008.75
Raja Yousef5.0047147.009.40
Jacob Fitton5.0021121.004.20
Aamir Saleem4.011226.003.00
Dan Anderson4.211728.503.92

Sonning 4 Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
3nb 7w 6b 3lb 
for 10 wickets
19
178 (36.3 overs)		     
K Kamal lbw T McDowell 21
A Driver b T McDowell 3
R Kennedy ct A Avrili b. T McDowell 9
Naqash Tahir ct D Shaw b. A Avrili 31
O Shabir ct T Nash b. M Miller 16
Aamir Saleem ct D Shaw b. A Avrili 43
Raja Yousef b T McDowell 28
Waqas Tahir b A Avrili 1
Dan Anderson lbw A Avrili 7
Jacob Fitton Not Out  0
Jack Nott ct N McDonagh b. A Avrili 0

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Crowthorne Saturday 2nd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Tony McDowell MBE10.023047.503.00
Marshall Miller10.0135135.003.50
James Carson3.002400.008.00
Ant Avrili10.3150510.004.76
Tim Garrett3.003000.0010.00

  • Umpire :
    H Stent
  • Scorer :