Scorecard

Boxmoor v Radlett CC 3rd XI on Sat 23 Jul 2005 at 1.30
Radlett CC Won 7 wickets

Match report This was Radlett’s finest win of the season. Boxmoor, undeservedly near the bottom of the league, are a decent side, who were taken apart by a truly excellent performance by a strong Radlett team.

Richard Hardy lost the toss, and Radlett were asked to bowl. After a strangely staccato beginning, Boxmoor were 90 for 4 after 20 overs, and looking at a total of 200 plus.

The day was airless, muggy and overcast, and the wicket half as difficult as it looked. Hardy had imaginatively opened with the mercurial Simon Gray, who gave his captain good pace, and a good line. But it was Ross Carpenter who took the first two wickets, assisted by a couple of quite superb catches by Amjad Khan, who seemed to shed twenty years in taking a couple very tough chances with aplomb from Ross Carpenter’s bowling.

Yet Boxmoor surged on, until Jim Chaudry stemmed the run rate, and utilising wonderfully effective bowling changes, Hardy contrived, with the help of a brilliant second spell by Josh Rose (4 for 16 from 8 overs) to bowl Boxmoor out for 122. After Boxmoor were going at 5 an over (65 after 12 overs) Chaudry ended with figures of 10 overs 1 for 8.

The fielding again was good, with Khan’s two brilliant catches, a wonderful caught and bowled by Rose, who surely is one of the best fielders in the club, and a snorter pocketed by Hardy. All the other wickets were bowled, and they were all peaches of deliveries.

Other features of the fielding performance were Horlock’s imaginative impression of a ruptured emu running through long grass with a broomstick embedded firmly up the spinal tract.

This added up to a really excellent bowling and fielding performance by Radlett, against potentially dangerous opposition, and left them 123 to win, with 60 overs to do it.

The wicket, still difficult, did for Ingram and Khan, both out looking comfortable, to very good deliveries, and at 40 for 2, there was remedial work to do. And it was. Simon Gray and Jim Chaudry played some difficult bowling with much skill, and patiently and cleverly won the game. Gray finished with an unbeaten 50, and Chaudry was out trying to win the game with a boundary.

This was one of the most significant partnerships of the year, and under difficult conditions, Gray and Chaudry put on 75 runs with a maturity and skill that won a deceptively difficult match. Had those qualities been applied last week, that would surely have resulted in a win instead of defeat.

As it was, this 7 wicket victory puts Radlett back up towards the front runners.

Having said that, Chaudry and Gray are too good for the Thirds, and ought to be playing a level higher. Nonetheless, Radlett Third XI can still nurture hopes of finishing in the top four.

Radlett CC 3rd XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
 
for 3 wickets
0
123
(0.0 overs)		    
Amjad Khan Bowled  16 2
Dominic Ingram Caught  12
Simon Gray Not Out  53
Jim Chaudry Bowled  32 1
Tim Smithers Not Out  0
Richard Hardy   1
Josh Rose   1
Tony Johnson  
Cambpell Horlock  
Josh Rose  
Ross Carpenter  

Boxmoor Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
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Boxmoor Batting
Player name Runs
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TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
0
122 (0.0 overs)
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Radlett CC 3rd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Simon Gray 9.0242314.004.67
Ross Carpenter7.0042221.006.00
Josh Rose8.221644.001.92
Jim Chaudry10.05818.000.80

  • Umpire :
    Peter Irwin
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