Scorecard

Hatfield v Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 1st XI on Sat 30 Aug 2008 at 1.00pm
Northwood Town Cricket Club Won by 3 wickets

Match report NORTHWOOD TOWN won their seventh league game of the season and could well have condemned Hatfield to Division Three, but they made hard work in chasing a modest total after the bowlers had produced another excellent display. In a surprise move Raj Ahluwalia opted to open the bowling himself with Dave Bushnell. Both picked up early wickets as the hosts struggled to 31-2 and then 38-4 with Ahluwalia justifying his move with excllent figures of 2-14 off eleven overs. The skipper immeidately withdrew himself for usual opener Johanes Van EE and replaced Bushnell with spinner Ben Rawson-Jones. The tactics reaped immediate rewards as wickets continued to tumble with Hatfield struggling to make an impression on the scoreboard. Tight bowling and disciplined fielding ensured Town squeezed the life out of the Hatfield innings and they were finally dismissed for 79 off 36.4 overs. Rawson-Jones returned 4-17 whilst Van EE took 3-13. In reply Ahluwalia continued to experiment but was aware that the deteriorating pitch would mean he couldnt gamble too much. At 2-2 the tactics were certainly backfiring but Rohan Lee and Phil Costard restored some parity before both were dismissed to leave Town at 31-4. Van EE decided his usual aggressive style was the only way to counter the demons in the pitch and his innings of 30 was to prove crucial in the run in. Ahluwalia played a supporting role throughout in a partnership of 32 but when Van EE was dismissed the game was truly in the balance at 63-5. This was soon 68-6 before Town finally crept home for the loss of just won wicket, the skipper remaining unbeaten on 13.

Ahluwalia took positives from the victory:
"Overall I am delighted with the win - we wanted to experiment to see how others could handle playing in different positions but I knew we needed to keep the score down. Our bowling and fielding ensured we did that and we definitely deserved the 30 points."

Hatfield Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
4lb 
for 10 wickets
4
79 (38.5 overs)		     
H Bond ct  Lister b Bushnell 20
D Hughes ct  Van Ee b Rawson-Jones 17
K Whitehead ct  Costard b Ahluwalia 1
C Reid ct  Bushnell b Rawson-Jones 7
D Desai ct  Abel b Ahluwalia 4
B Golder b  Van Ee 0
I Golder ct  Ahluwalia b Rawson-Jones 13
A Ashley-Smyth ct  Newman b Van Ee 8
L Wynne b  Van Ee 5
B Bigley Not Out  0
G Wynne b  Rawson-Jones 0

Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
David Bushnell10.0331131.003.10
Raj Ahluwalia11.021427.001.27
Ben Rawson-Jones9.531744.251.73
Johannes Van-Ee8.021334.331.62

Northwood Town Cricket Club Saturday 1st XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
3lb 
for 7 wickets
3
80		        
Michael Lister b  Desai 1 1
Dean Barker ct  & b Desai 1
Rohan Lee ct  Reid b Desai 14
Phil Costard lbw  b I Golder 14 1
Johannes Van-Ee b  Bigley 30 1
Raj Ahluwalia Not Out  11 1
David Bushnell lbw  b Desai 2 1
Johnny Armitage b  Bigley 2
Ben Rawson-Jones Not Out  4
Travis Abel   1
Craig Newman   1

Hatfield Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
I Golder10.0224124.002.40
D Desai16.092245.501.38
D Hughes1.101300.0011.14
B Bigley5.001829.003.60