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Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club League 1st XI v Braywood CC 1st XI on Sat 31 May 2025 at 12:30
Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Won by 2 wickets

Match report 🗞️ “Ravi Ramps It! Crowthorne Clinch Win as Braywood Blunder Backfires”

Thames Valley Cricket League – Division 5B
📍 St Sebastian's Playing Field | 🗓️ Saturday 31st May 2025
🏏 Toss: Crowthorne won and chose to field
🏆 Result: Crowthorne won by 2 wickets
⚠️ Braywood deducted 12 points for fielding a non-approved player (PER & P 6.1B)

🔥 First Innings: Haider and Bhanot Build, Krüger Cracks Back
Braywood’s innings was a tale of two halves. After slumping to 24-4, Ali A Haider (73 off 103) and Chetan Bhanot (47 off 58) rebuilt with grit and flair. Saksham Singh added a brisk 39, pushing the total to 206.
Crowthorne’s bowlers shared the spoils:
- David Krüger led the charge with 4 wickets for 25 runs.
- Sinith Chandran was economical and incisive with 3-18.
- Jeff Cluett bowled a tight spell, taking 1-21 off 9 overs.

💪 Second Innings: Crowthorne Recover from 6-89 to Seal the Chase
Crowthorne’s reply started disastrously—three wickets fell for six runs, and they were 89-6 with the game slipping away. But Ant Avrili (53 off 87) steadied the ship before Jeff Cluett (43*) and Ravi Godbole (56* off 39) launched a counterattack.
Their unbeaten 90-run stand turned the tide, with Ravi’s eight boundaries sealing the win in 41 overs.

🎯 Key Performers
- Ravi Godbole: 56* off 39 balls (match-winning knock under pressure)
- Jeff Cluett: 43* and 1-21 (calm and composed all-round effort)
- David Krüger: 4-25 (top wicket-taker)
- Ali A Haider: 73 (anchored Braywood’s innings)
- Chetan Bhanot: 47 and 2-16 (solid all-round contribution)

📊 Points Summary
- Crowthorne: 22 points
- Braywood: 0 points (after 12-point deduction)

Braywood CC 1st XI Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
2nb 11w 3b 5lb 
for 10 wickets
21
206 (44.5 overs)		     
Daud Haider ct  G Krüger b S Chandran 3 7 42.86
Amit Gokhru b  S Chandran 2 16 12.50
Ali A Haider ct  D Cartledge b D Krüger 73 103 11 2 70.87
Ashish Kapila ct  W Avrili b J Cluett 1 2 50.0
Akash Udayan lbw  S Chandran 0 6 0
Saksham Singh ct  W Avrili b A Fowles 39 53 6 1 73.58
Chetan Bhanot lbw  D Krüger 47 58 6 81.03
Arun Verma ct  Unsure b D Krüger 1 2 50.0
Phanidhar Rao b  D Krüger 2 4 50.0
Hamid Butt run out  (Unsure) 10 10 100
Tarru Naval Vashistha Not Out  8 11 1 72.73

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club League 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Jeff Cluett9.0321121.002.33
Sinith Chandran8.021836.002.25
Ollie Taylor5.004100.008.20
Ashley Fowles4.0023123.005.75
Ravi Godbole9.013000.003.33
Gerhard Krüger4.004000.0010.00
David Krüger5.512546.254.29

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club League 1st XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
8w 6b 2lb 
for 8 wickets
16
207		        
Julian O'Loughlin b  C Bhanot 0 3 0
David Krüger ct  S Singh b T Naval Vashistha 4 3 1 133.33
Dan Cartledge lbw  C Bhanot 0 4 0 1
Will Avrili ct  Unsure b A A Haider 25 54 1 46.30 2
Ant Avrili ct  Unsure b D Haider 53 87 6 60.92
Ollie Taylor ct  Unsure b A A Haider 0 2 0
Gerhard Krüger ct  Unsure b A A Haider 10 7 2 142.86 1
Jeff Cluett Not Out  43 45 2 95.56
Ashley Fowles b  D Haider 0 2 0
Ravi Godbole Not Out  56 39 8 143.59
Sinith Chandran  

Braywood CC 1st XI Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Chetan Bhanot9.041628.001.78
Tarru Naval Vashistha3.00818.002.67
Hamid Butt4.002000.005.00
Akash Udayan6.004800.008.00
Ali A Haider9.0148316.005.33
Phanidhar Rao2.001300.006.50
Daud Haider5.0026213.005.20
Arun Verma3.002000.006.67