Weekend 4th August 2018
Chesham travelled to Amersham for the zone 9 local derby. Chesham won the toss and elected to bat. Chesham started strongly with a 50 run opening partnership between Matt Rance and Mark Eteen.
Runs kept coming and the middle order did their jobs Dom Goodman scored a patient 53 and was well supported by Robin Pritchard 42 Josh Drage 26 Mark Eteen 37 Matt Rance 29. Chesham finally reached 216 all out with Sam Helm taking 5-51.
Amersham started the run chase and was in deep trouble at 56/4 with Ash Turney bowling a superb spell of bowling 1-19. Enter the spin twins Matt Rance (4-16) and Nouman Aslam (5-34) who had Amersham in all sorts of trouble eventually bowling Amersham out for 94 in under 30 overs to give Chesham Victory by 122 runs.
In Divison 2A Chesham 2s hosted Amersham 2s in the second zone 9 derby of the day. Chesham 2s won the toss and elected to bat on a good Meadow Wicket. Chesham 2s scored 239 for 9 off 52 overs with Ed Turner scoring 79 and David Hughes-D’Aeth 43. Amersham were bowled out for 196 with Chris Royals taking (4-77) and Asad Rehman taking (4-68) giving Chesham the victory by 43 runs with just 3 balls to spare. A vital win and shows the virtue of never giving up with the last 4 wickets falling in the final 4 overs.
In Divison 5A Chesham 3s travelled to Hayes 2s. Hayes 2s won the toss and elected to field Chesham 3s were bowled out for 143 with Mo Asuaf scoring 44 Hayes 2s scored 144 for 7 with Wade Mahmood (2-14) and Mark Hall (2-44) was the pick of the Chesham bowlers. Chesham lost the game by 3 Wickets.
On Sunday the ladies side lost a close encounter. It was a well fought battle against Kempston Methodists yesterday but alas we suffered our first defeat this season. We struggled to get their top batter out who scored 79 of their 133 total. Then a few quick wickets at the top couldn’t be saved by some great batting from Emily (21), Lorett (12), Sue (11) and Louise (25). And we were all out for 104. We fought hard but it wasn’t our day.