Banbury Win Sends Them Joint Top – Banbury Cricket Club

Article from Monday’s: Oxford Mail:

Banbury saw off Reading by four wickets at White Post Road to join leaders Slough on 80 points at the top of Division 1 of the Sommers Home Counties Premier League.

Reading decided to bat on winning the toss but were soon made to rue their decision as Jimmy Phillips got to work.

The young Oxfordshire spinner finished with superb figures of 6-68 off 24.2 overs as the visitors were dismissed for 209 in the 66th over.

Banbury’s reply was positive from the off as openers Andrew Sabin and Benji Hector put on 69 for the first wicket.

After that, Jamie Noble took over and steered the side through a mid-innings slump to finish unbeaten with 61 as Banbury eased home at 212-6 from 52 overs.

Scorecard courtesy of Nobby Clarke:

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THE HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE – DIVISION 1
SATURDAY 09 JUNE 2007
BANBURY V READING
ONLY Innings of READING
	Batsman			How Out		Bowler			Runs	Fall of wkt
1	D.BARNES			L.B.W.		E.SMITH			7	1 – 16
2	R.KIRK w/k			RUN OUT					14	2 – 22
3	D.BARR			C & B		J.PHILLIPS			47	5 – 184
4	A.HABIB capt			BOWLED		J.PHILLIPS			45	3 – 91
5	P.TURK			C & B		L.RYAN			20	4 – 134
6	L.BEAVON			L.B.W.		J.PHILLIPS			45	8 – 199
7	C.CRUIKSHANK			BOWLED		J.PHILLIPS			0	6 – 186
8	L.McCARTHY			L.B.W.		P.TAYLOR			5	7 – 197
9	F.ALI			NOT OUT					7
10	G.EDWARDS			BOWLED		J.PHILLIPS			2	9 – 203
11	D.HARTLEY			CT.E.SMITH		J.PHILLIPS			2	10 – 209
Extras		Byes 5 , Leg Byes 5 , No Balls 2 , Wides 3 , Penalties 0							15
TOTAL				65.2 Overs		10 Wickets			209
			BOWLER		Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets
		1	R.NEWHOOK		12	3	34	0
		2	E.SMITH		8	3	21	1
		3	P.TAYLOR		13	2	40	1
		4	S.BECK		1	0	5	0
		5	J.PHILLIPS		24.2	7	68	6
		6	L.RYAN		7	2	31	1

ONLY Innings of BANBURY
	Batsman			How Out		Bowler			Runs	Fall of wkt
1	A.SABIN			CT.A.HABIB		C.CRUIKSHANK			27	1 – 69
2	B. HECTOR capt			CT.C.CRUIKSHANK		F.ALI			35	3 – 73
3	I. HAWTIN w/k			L.B.W.		C.CRUIKSHANK			0	2 – 71
4	J.NOBLE			NOT OUT					61
5	W.COOPER			STPD. R.KIRK		D.HARTLEY			6	4 – 111
6	S.BECK			CT.G.EDWARDS		D.HARTLEY			16	5 – 152
7	L. RYAN			CT.D.BARR		D.HARTLEY			13	6 – 181
8	P. TAYLOR			NOT OUT					21
9	R.NEWHOOK			dnb
10	E.SMITH			dnb