Scorecard

BUSCOT PARK CRICKET CLUB 1st ELEVEN v Poulton 3rds on Sat 09 Aug 2025 at 13.00
BUSCOT PARK CRICKET CLUB Won by 4 wickets

Match report Sonu Kumar's figures of 8-5-9-3 are now the 1sts most economical 8 over bowling spell in the GCL beating his own 8-2-10-4 at home to Central Hall in 2025. The 1sts most economical 8 over bowling of all-time is 8-6-2-2 by Paul Farmer at home to Swindon B on 23 Aug 14.
Sonu's bowling figures of 8-5-9-3 are now the 1sts best bowling at home to Poulton 3 beating Mark Thatcher's 8-3-15-3 at home to Poulton 3 in 2024

Myron Palha's score of 20 is his highest score in league cricket for the 1sts beating his previous highest 1st XI score of 16 (4th innings).
Myron's score included 20 runs (5 x 4's) in boundaries so is now the joint 3rd highest league score by the 1st XI when all runs scored in boundaries. The highest is 24 (6 x 4's) by Neil Phillips at home to Great Bedwyn in 1997 and 24 (2 x 6's and 3 x 4's) by Will Thompson away at Keevil in 2022. Louis Bouwers is also in joint 3rd place with 20 (2 x 6's and 2 x 4's) at home to Blunson in 2013.

Will Thompson finishing on 49no despite running 2 runs when only 1 run required to win so the 2nd run (and his 50th run in total) not being allowed as the game was over and a dead ball once first run was completed.
Will's score of 49no is a new 1st XI highest league score at home to Poulton 3 beating the 1sts previous highest score at home to Poulton 3 which was 36 by Liam Farmer in 2024.

1st's all time league record against Poulton 3 is now Played 2, Won 2, Lost 0.

Poulton 3rds Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
1nb 3w 17b 3lb 
for 8 wickets
24
146 (40.0 overs)		     
Farooq Bosan b  W Thompson 17 3
Jock Wills ct  L Farmer b W Shields 3
Aju joseph b  M Thatcher 9 2
Seb Jones b  S Kumar 21 3
Emilia Powell b  A Afonso 28 5
Oliver Rycherd-Smith b  S Kumar 0
Arjan Sundavadra ct  & bowled S Kumar 23 2 1
Archie Walton Not Out  13 1
Matthew Ash vie ct  L Farmer b A Afonso 7 1
James Bryant Not Out  1
Thomas Chamberlain  

BUSCOT PARK CRICKET CLUB 1st ELEVEN Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Mark Thatcher8.0221121.002.63
Will Shields8.0128128.003.50
William Thompson8.0135135.004.38
Sonu Kumar8.05933.001.13
Ethan Malik4.002200.005.50
Arron Afonso4.001125.502.75

BUSCOT PARK CRICKET CLUB 1st ELEVEN Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
4nb 8w 7b 1lb 
for 6 wickets
20
147		        
Nirmal Singh lbw  A joseph 25 5
Sonu Kumar ct  T Chamberlain b J Bryant 0 1
Myron Palha ct  J Wills b J Bryant 20 5
Will Shields ct  O Rycherd-Smith b M Ash vie 4 1
Arron Afonso ct  A Sundavadra b A Walton 14 3
Liam Farmer b  A joseph 2 2
William Thompson Not Out  49 7 1
Tom Stepp Not Out  13 1
Mark Thatcher  
Alex Watt  
Ethan Malik  

Poulton 3rds Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
James Bryant4.001728.504.25
Arjan Sundavadra3.002500.008.33
Matthew Ash vie3.0026126.008.67
Aju joseph5.511929.503.26
Thomas Chamberlain2.002100.0010.50
Archie Walton3.0026126.008.67
Emilia Powell1.00500.005.00