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Written by Richard Burden
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
 The winners collect their trophy
In the groups stages the bowlers dominated holding Cambridgeshire to 75-5 in the abandoned game, dismissing Suffolk for 66 with Bucks winning by 9 wickets. On day 3 Lincolnshire where held to 81 off their 45 overs with Bucks knocking off the runs in 26 overs. On day 4 Bucks experimented with batting first making 145 in 45 overs and then dismissing Cumbria for 94.
With three straight wins and bonus points from the abandoned game Bucks claimed their place in the final against Norfolk who coincidentally were their house mates in the St Vincent boarding house.
Heavy overnight rain delayed the start of the final which was reduced to a 30 over match. The wetness of the pitch caused some difficulty for the bowlers but again they did well dismissing Norfolk for 94. Unusually Bucks started their innings with quick dismissals and at one stage where 9 for 3 but they held their nerve and reached the total with 3 overs to spare.
The boys thoroughly enjoyed the competition and the excellent facilities, food and comradeship during the competition. Congratulations must be given to Don Topley former Essex player and Zimbabwe coach and his team at the RHS for organising such a brilliant competition for eight counties under such difficult meteorological conditions and thanks to the Ipswich Building Society for sponsoring the event.
There were some outstanding individual performances from Bucks but this really was a team effort from all the boys and Bucks manager Mr Peter Gibbins. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 12 August 2008 )
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Written by Kevin Beaumont
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Friday, 01 August 2008 |
In what was always going to be an intriguing and tense affair, Oxon
won the toss and inserted Bucks on a beautiful day but on a wicket
that looked likely to help the bowlers. At 26-3 it looked like a good
toss to win, however an excellent century stand between Fahim Qureshi
(58) and skipper Andy Wynd (49) restored some order to the Bucks
innings. Wickets continued to fall as batsmen established themselves
but were unable to build on good starts. Mainly thanks to a 9th wicket
stand of 45 between Collins and Arif of which Collins contributed 41,
Bucks posted a challenging 267. Faruq (3-41) and Vainker who toiled
most of the day (29-4-83-4) were the most impressive Oxon bowlers.
Three quick wickets for Bucks left Oxon on 23-3, but Watling and Stern
moved the score on to 66-3 overnight. |
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Written by Mike Knox
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Monday, 28 July 2008 |
Bucks suffered their second successive convincing defeat when they lost by
127 runs to Staffordshire in their Minor Counties Championship Eastern
Diviison game at Slough on Tuesday.
From the moment they won the toss and batted on the first day,
Staffordshire dictated the game, and although Bucks fought back well in the
second innings, they could not come close to their victory target of 339.
Fine innings by Brian Simms and former Warwickshire and Derbyshire player
Mo Sheikh took Staffs to 329-7 in their first innings, despite a long, tidy
spell of leg-spin bowling by young Matt Watson.
Slough's Fahim Qureshi marked his Championship debut with a splendid
half-century for Bucks, who still finished more than 100 runs adrift on
first innings.
Staffs were struggling at 135-7 in their second innings after effective
spinning from both Watson and Medlycott, but an eight-wicket stand of 99
enabled the visitors to set a formidable target.
Despite another good innings from Qureshi and a half-century from Matt
Jones, Bucks were bowled out for 211 in the 78th over.
Bucks's next Championship game is against Lincolnshire at Grantham from
August 3-5.
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