Scorecard

Chesham Cricket Club 2nd XI v Amersham 2nd XI on Sat 07 Sep 2013 at 12:30
Chesham Cricket Club Won by 1 wicket

Match report Cricket is a strange game. At 75-0 Chesham were cruising towards a crushing derby win as Mark Eteen and David Hughes-D’Aeth looked incredibly comfortable and most of us were paying far more attention to a highly competitive game of ‘one hand one bounce’ on the boundary. This all changed when David Hughes-D’Aeth departed LBW. From there Chesham then lost four wickets without adding to the score, courtesy of some accurate bowling and two astounding pieces of fielding. But there seemed to be little cause for alarm - only 28 runs were required and six wickets were still in hand. How wrong we were. Runs came at a premium, wickets continued to tumble and when Graham Rance was bowled by Atkinson the score read 94-9 and Amersham were in hysterics. The last 9 runs would need to come from number 10 Alex Watson and number 11 Asad Rehman. The pair batted intelligently and took every single on offer and slowly, slowly, Chesham edged toward the target. In the end, the fate of the three promotion chasing teams was decided by the outside edge of Asad Rehman’s bat. Rehman nicked Ward behind, the ball squirted between the slips and gully and trickled over the boundary in the astonishingly vacant third man area, prompting relief and celebrations in equal measure from the Chesham camp.
How different the situation seemed earlier in the day as Pete Clifford, having not bowled since the Marlow match 5 weeks ago produced the bowling performance of the season, recording the astonishing figures of 20.3 overs, 8-33. Amersham’s powerful batting lineup had no answer to his movement both in the air and off the seam and Clifford was well supported by an excellent bowling and fielding effort from the whole side. Amersham succumbed on a good track to 102 all out, but before tea captain Matt Watson cautioned the side not to take anything for granted, perhaps we all should have listened more carefully.
This was a dramatic finale to a superb season. After many years of trying and failing in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways, Chesham 2nd XI have been promoted to Division 3 and have done so unbeaten and as champions. However, in the words of the Chairman “we’re only back where we bloody started from 15 years ago”. There’s plenty still to do and, combined with strong 1st XI showings and the 3rd XI taking our place in Division 4, there are few more exciting places to be playing your cricket than at Chesham. We may take some stick for doing things differently and not being as other clubs are but producing our own players from a very young age and working hard every week is paying off and is a blueprint for running a club that we can, and should, all be incredibly proud of.

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Amersham 2nd XI Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
0
102 (40.3 overs)		     
Stephenson Lbw  30
Shuttle Caught  1
Fleming Lbw  2
Haddock Caught  6
Colquhoun Bowled  0
Weston Bowled  0
Langley Caught  14
Ward Bowled  18
McKay Bowled  0
Rogers Bowled  4
Atkinson Not Out  1

Chesham Cricket Club 2nd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Peter Clifford20.3103384.131.61
Alex Watson6.021100.001.83
Thomas Free4.0116116.004.00
Asad Rehman10.0518118.001.80

Chesham Cricket Club 2nd XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
 
for 9 wickets
0
105		        
David Hughes-D'Aeth Lbw  34 50 68.00
Mark Eteen Caught  39 55 70.91
Mark Hall Run out  0 15 0
Henry White Caught  0 4 0
Matt Watson Caught  4 17 23.53
Graham Rance Bowled  15 18 83.33
Thomas Free Lbw  0 1 0
Chris Royals Lbw  0 4 0
Peter Clifford Lbw  0 4 0
Alex Watson Not Out  5 16 31.25
Asad Rehman Not Out  6 21 28.57

Amersham 2nd XI Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Ward10.3039139.003.71
McKay5.001400.002.80
Atkinson12.052154.201.75
Rogers3.002000.006.67
Weston4.031025.002.50

  • Umpire :
  • Scorer :
    Lee Wiles