Scorecard

Hoddesdon III v Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 2nd XI on Sat 18 Aug 2012 at 1.00pm
Northwood Town Cricket Club Won by 10 wickets

Match report Northwood Town 2nd XI arrived at Hoddesdon with a single aim to win and give themselves the best chance of promotion to the div 8. As a result on the hottest day of the year, Skipper Ramawat won the toss and against all the odds decided to field first, knowing what a strong chasing side his team had become.

Both the opening bowlers, Furmenger & Dave kept things very tight with there disciplined line and lengths. Despite an early chance dropped behind the stumps in the first overs, Dave got both the openers out cheaply. Harrison and 13 year old Fryers tried to apply them and had a partnership of 42 before Dave got Harrison out caught in gully and Furmenger had to produce an absolute peach to get 13 year old out. Fryers batted very well with a strong technique and the delivery would have probably got anyone out in both teams. Once they were both out, wickets kept falling at regular intervals and Vadgama came on to finish the tail. In the end Hoddesdon finished on 87 all out in 33.5 overs. Dave got 4 wickets in 15, Furmenger 3 in 17 and Vadgama got 2 in 1.5 overs.
Overall an excellent effort by the bowlers and well backed up by the rest in the field in very hot conditions.

After tea, Town openers began cautiously but it was soon evident that Hoddesdon, missing their skipper (who is their 'Furmo'), didn't have the control needed to pressure the Town batsmen. Both the openers, Cotton and Robbins, were able to wait for the bad ball and send them to the boundary. Cotton (44no) with 3 successive gorgeous cover drives in an over from Brooks was particular impressive and left Robbins (35no) struggling to keep up. It was soon evident that town would chase the target down quite comfortably and which they did in style by chasing the score down in 12.4 overs without loosing any wicket.

Overall all an impressive win by Town as they march on with there promotion dream. Next game Leverstock Green at home and Town have to keep the momentum and ensure they are in position to take advantage of any slip of form from the teams above!

Hoddesdon III Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
0
87 (33.5 overs)		     
M Brooks lbw  b Dave 8
R Costigan b  Dave 6
J Harrison ct  Ramawat b Dave 35
H Brown ct  Dave b Furmenger 6
T Fryers b  Furmenger 17
T Rees b  Dave 0
A Small ct  Hills b M Vadgama 3
J Hunt run out  (Dave) 0
J Leslie b  Furmenger 0
R Maughan Not Out  0
O Maughan b  M Vadgama 0

Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 2nd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Neal Furmenger17.022739.001.59
Sachin Dave15.0349412.253.27
Minesh V1.51120.500.55

Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 2nd XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
2nb 5w 5b  
for 0 wickets
12
91		        
Jamie Cotton Not Out  44 46 7 95.65
Richard Robbins Not Out  35 38 6 92.11
Ravi Ramawat   1
Rishi Adatia  
Pradip Pandey  
Kunal Sanghi  
Ravi Kotecha  
Adam Hills   1
Sachin Dave   1 1
Neal Furmenger  
Minesh V  

Hoddesdon III Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
T Rees4.021700.004.25
M Brooks3.002500.008.33
O Maughan2.402900.0010.88
R Costigan3.001500.005.00