Scorecard

Northampton Exiles II v Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 2nd XI on Sat 21 Aug 2010 at 1.00 pm
Northwood Town Cricket Club Lost by 113 runs

Match report Town's recent success story was ended with a 113 run defeat against Northampton Exiles which confirmed relegation to division 9 for 2011. On being asked to field on a overcast and breezy day Hills and Syed's initial overs were a little wayward allowing Exiles to accumulate runs freely before both found their line and length and put pressure on the Exiles batsman.After taking the wicket of Exiles opener Syed ended his opening spell with 1-27 whereupon the backup bowlers were not able to impose the same control until the introduction of skipper Dave Harding that Adam Hills was imposing at one end. Hills was experiencing no luck especially against Exiles skipper Bower who compiled a dogged 67 before retiring hurt. On another day Hills could have taken 6 - 7 wickets as he repeatedly beat the bat and unfortunately suffered 2 dropped catches before his ending his marathon spell with figures of 3-77 off of 20 overs. Exiles finally closed their innings on 230 for 5 after 50 overs which the Town needed to surpass to if they were to have any hope of avoiding relegation.

The Towns reply was unfortunately not good enough on the day where upon only a fine innings of 31 from Rukshan Senanayaka and 23 from Ravi Kotecha offered any resistance to Exiles bowling attack. Too many of the Towns batsman gifted their wickets away with poor shot selection especially against Exiles spinner Mistry who extracting considerable bounce from the wickets finished with 5 wickets as the innings finished on 117 without attaining even any batting points.

A minor consolation to come from the game was the compliment made by Exiles skipper and several of their players on recongnising that relegation was confirmed for the Town reflected that they had played far worse teams during the season which undermined the fact that if the team had been able to field stronger sides during the first half of the season and accumulated some match winning performances than relegation might have been avoided.

Northampton Exiles II Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
 
for 5 wickets
0
230 (0.0 overs)		     
Frost b  Syed 8
Bower Retired Not Out  67
Plum b  Hills 42
Shamin b  Hills 37
Hanjraj ct  Mekwan b Harding 10
Naik b  Hills 17
O'Neill Not Out  12
Goldman Not Out  7
   
   
   

Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 2nd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Adam Hills20.0377325.673.85
Shahmir Syed8.0027127.003.38
Viraj Manek3.002000.006.67
Rao Ganisetti8.003400.004.25
Neil Dudley5.003000.006.00
David Harding6.0027127.004.50

Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 2nd XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
0
117		        
Neil Dudley ct  Mistry 14
Rao Ganisetti ct  Mistry 4
Rukshan Senanayaka ct  Shamin 31
Adam Hills ct  Mistry 10
Suvin Mekwan b  Shamin 6 1
Ravi Kotecha b  Strang 23
Edward Johnson ct  Naik 6
Neil Cheesewright ct  Mistry 4
Viraj Manek ct  Strang 2
David Harding ct  Mistry 2
Shahmir Syed Not Out  0

Northampton Exiles II Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Mughal7.021800.002.57
Mistry10.4051510.204.78
Shamin3.001427.004.67
Strang7.021628.002.29
Naik6.0116116.002.67