Scorecard

BUSCOT PARK CRICKET CLUB 1st ELEVEN v Williamstrip on Sat 30 Aug 2025 at 13.00
Match was Abandoned

Match report Mark Thatcher's figures of 8-5-8-1 are now the 1sts most economical 8 over bowling spell in the GCL beating Sonu Kumar's 8-5-9-3 at home to Poulton 3 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 in the WCCL.

Sonu's wicket in this game was his 30th league wicket of the season for the 1sts so this means Sonu moves from 16th to finish 15th on the Top 25 league wicket takers in a season for the 1sts. In this game Sonu (30 wickets, av 7.83) passed 30 wickets by Mike Heasman in 1994 (av 18.07).

The last time anyone scored the most runs and took the most wickets in a 1st XI league season was Ronny Fernandes in 2005 who scored 437 runs and took 18 wickets (unconfirmed as scorebook missing). The only other time was in 1988 with Bob Deane scoring 378 runs and taking 15 wickets.

1st's all time league record against Williamstrip is now Played 4, Won 1, Lost 2, Abandoned 1.

Season stats ;-

Won 14 + 1 won by forfeit, Lost 1, Abandoned 1, Cancelled 1
Most runs = Sonu Kumar, 225
Most wickets = Sonu Kumar, 30
Highest score = Sonu Kumar, 75 and Will Thompson, 75
Hundreds = 0
Most hundreds = none
Fifties = 9 by 7 batters
Most fifties = Will Thompson, Vatan Kinha, 2
Best bowling = Mark Thatcher, 5-27
5-wickets in a game = 1 by 1 bowler
Most '5-wickets' in a game = Mark Thatcher, 1
Highest batting partnership = Nitish Khokhar / Vatan Kinha, 123un
Most catches = Liam Farmer, 7
Most outfield catches = Will Shields, 5
Most WK dismissals = Liam Farmer, 7
Most stumpings = Liam Farmer, 2
Most 6's = Will Thompson, 6
Most 4's = Sonu Kumar, 35
Ducks = 23 by 16 batters
Most ducks = Tom Stepp, 3
Most appearances = Tom Stepp, 15
Most overs = Sonu Kumar, 91.3
Most maidens = Mark Thatcher, 25
Captains = Tom Stepp 15, Liam Farmer 1
Players used = 34

Sonu Kumar with 246 league runs (225 in 1sts and 21 in 2nds) was the club's leading league run scorer in 2025.
Sonu Kumar with 30 league wickets (30 in 1sts and 0 in 2nds) was the club's leading league wicket taker in 2025.

Overall for the 1sts and 2nds the club used 62 players in the league for 2025.
In total the 1sts and 2nds finished with 51 league ducks (not a record as had 55 in 2008 and 54 in 2010).

Averages qualifications ;-
15 completed batting innings by 1sts so therefore 8 completed innings (or at least 8 innings irrespective of how many completed innings if a batters runs per innings is higher than any batters average who has at least 8 completed innings - if so, the batter with higher average will win) or 300 runs to qualify.
15 completed bowling innings and 514.2 overs bowled by 1sts so therefore 50 overs or 30 wickets to qualify.

The end of the 45th season for 1st XI in league cricket.
The record so far in 45 seasons is played 666, won 294, tied 1, lost 344, abandoned 27 (actual games, not including forfeits).

Williamstrip Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
1w 3b  
for 3 wickets
4
61 (20.1 overs)		     
D'Arcy Bond ct  W Thompson b M Thatcher 2
Bobby Easterbrook b  W Shields 5
Ricardo Canestra Not Out  28 5
Mark Godwin b  S Kumar 17 3
Toby Heycock Not Out  5 1
Michael Godwin  
Bruce Currie  
George Cook  
Steve Reeves  
Charlie Burnett  
Jon Gardiner  

BUSCOT PARK CRICKET CLUB 1st ELEVEN Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Mark Thatcher8.05818.001.00
Will Shields8.0028128.003.50
William Thompson2.111700.007.85
Sonu Kumar2.00515.002.50

BUSCOT PARK CRICKET CLUB 1st ELEVEN Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
 
for 0 wickets
0
0		        
Tom Stepp  
Liam Farmer  
Sonu Kumar  
Nirmal Singh  
Nitish Khokhar  
Vatan Kinha  
Alfie Millar  
William Thompson   1
Will Shields  
Myron Palha  
Mark Thatcher  

Williamstrip Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
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