Scorecard

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club League 2nd XI v Emmbrook & Bearwood 2 on Sat 10 Jun 2017 at 1:00 pm
Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Lost by 2 wickets

Match report Crows went into their match at home against bottom of the table Emmbrook AND Bearwood with high hopes of extended their three match unbeaten run, but as any follower of the Championship-esque BCL Division 2 will know, nothing could be taking for granted.

A losing toss saw Jules and Tom take the field armed with the willows on a green looking pitch and a lush outfield due the the grass improvement programme. It became clear boundaries would be hard to come by as they set about building a score. The ability to bat 45 overs under the strong and stable leadership of skipper Finucane has been a marked difference to boom or bust batting lineups of the last year or two, and anchored by a fine 48 from Jules and lower-middle order acceleration from Ant and Doug, 150 seemed a competitive if par total.

In the field Crows opening bowlers Rajesh and Finners put in long tight spells, both conceding 20 runs for one wicket each; the pacy Rajesh particularly unlucky to see a couple of edges hit the floor and one or two more through the gap between slips and gully. Emmbrook and Bearwood's chunky big hitters were at the crease when Bainsey and Nirav were brought in to the attack; this can go one of two ways for the slow left-armer and this was one of those where the big hits were just out of reach and into the gaps in the field, when so often the the flight and guile sees a catch in the deep or a stumping.

As Emmbrook pushed above the the 100 mark and towards the total, a throw-down stumping from keeper Chris, and well taken catch from the skipper in the deep and a sharp one-hander from Saviour in gully turned the game on its head once again and Emmbrook were showing why wins have been so hard to come by this year. Shambolic running from the tail saw Rajgopalan run out and Crows were two wickets from victory, but more near misses and the odd difficult drop and Emmbrook were home for an ultimately deserved win in another tight game for the 2s.

Skipper: Dan Finucane
Keeper: Chris Allright
Catches: Pande, Finucane, Sheppard
Stumpings: Allright
6s: Allright, Charman

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club League 2nd XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
2nb 5w 1b 5lb 
for 6 wickets
13
150		        
Julian O'Loughlin b Viroja 48 3
Tom Nash ct Narraway b. Bhatti 12
Simon Sheppard b Bhatti 4 1 1
Chris Allwright b Viroja 10 1 1
Nikhil Pande lbw Rajgopalan 9 1 1
Ant Avrili Run out  25
Doug Charman Not Out  28 2 1
Andrew Baines Not Out  1
Rajesh Nagaram  
Nirav Upadhyay  
Dan Finucane   1

Emmbrook & Bearwood 2 Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
A Cobb7.012100.003.00
A Bhatti9.0026213.002.89
O Vickers7.022700.003.86
S Rajgopalan12.0135135.002.92
A Viroja10.0035217.503.50

Emmbrook & Bearwood 2 Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
1nb 11w 5b  
for 8 wickets
17
151 (44.0 overs)		     
M Robertson ct Pande b. Finucane 11
A Viroja b Rajesh 2
J Narraway st Allright b. Nirav 24
T Sharpe lbw Nirav 21
M Smart ct Finucane b. Charman 36
A Fairhead b Charman 14
S Jain ct Sheppard b. Nirav 2
A Cobb Not Out  13
S Rajgopalan run out (?) 0
A Bhatti Not Out  11
O Vickers  

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club League 2nd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Rajesh Nagaram12.0220120.001.67
Dan Finucane11.0220120.001.82
Andrew Baines5.004700.009.40
Nirav Upadhyay10.0135311.673.50
Doug Charman6.0024212.004.00