CRICKET
Sat 1st XI, cancelled against Reading II
Sat 2nd XI, lost by 5 wickets Bracknell
Sun 1st XI, lost by 5 wickets against Farnham Royal
Sun 2nd XI, drew against Prestcold

HOCKEY
Mens 1st, won 5-2 against Aylesbury (Chiles, Cartledge, Scott, Declan)
Mixed, 20th, won 4-3 against Vansittarts (Wilson, Scott, Brown, Saunders)

CRICKET
Sat 1st XI, Fleet, home, 12.30pm start
Sat 2nd XI, High Wycombe III, away, 12.30pm start
Sun 1st XI, League Six-a-side, away
Sun 2nd XI, Duke of Hamilton, home, 2pm start

Last weekend found the Mighty 2s entertaining Prestcold at home on a surprisingly mellow and rain free day. This week's comedy captain, Alky Malky, began in fine style by winning the toss and putting Prestcold in to bat - a brave descision considering his bowling options and that 2 of our players had yet to put in an appearance! Surely the surrogate skipper had something up his sleeve-but more of this later.

Taking to the field with 2 subs in the form of Webb (I'll only be a minute dear!) and somebody recognisable only as an Arsenal supporter (spit, spit!), the start was immediately delayed by the unexpectedly early arrival of Neal '5live' Collins, who took over the keeping duties from Short Arm Jab, confident in his ability to last an entire innings without getting A) bored, B) cramp or C) lumped by a sledged batsman-but more of this later.

Judge Jon opened Chalfont's attack with a near perfect display of his own inimitable style of bowling, abley supported by Alky King Louie and his soporific swing bowling from the other end, whilst FT Noot sauntered onto the field of play at last to relieve Webb.

Prestcold advanced smartly to 50 when Alky revealed his master plan and bought on Dobber Anderson to bamboozle the batsmen and drop the run rate lower than FTN's pulse!

This fine display of containment was backed up by some stunningly athletic fielding from the more ancient and decrepit members of the side (all be it aided by gravity), noteably Short Arm Jab and that man Alky again, which put the younger and more spritely fielders to shame! Unfortunately catches were dropped with suprising regularity, Geoff 'Bungle' Brown having a mare as the designated ball magnet with chances following him to all points of the field.

Prestcold nudged their way to 202 for 6 at tea, leaving Chalfont the option of chasing or shutting up shop.

5live opened the batting with Bungle (who scored a six and a four after four maidens) and was soon up to speed, nudging and nurdling any fielder in earshot as a procession of batsmen supported him from the other end, only Dobber making any legitimate claim to a score of his own. Meanwhile, 5live annoyed more fielders and scored freely, Davenport sulked, FT Noot raised his metabolism enough to face a couple of balls and with 3 overs remaining, Short Arm Jab was soon diving to the crease to help 5live to his ton before falling LBW.

And so it was left to the experienced 'Dead Bat' Nagle to see out the last balls, sensibly stealing the strike from 5live to avoid bloodshed as we coughed and spluttered to a draw posting 186 for 7 with 5live carrying his bat with 113 not out then buggering off and leaving the rest of us to sooth the verbally savaged oppos. I love a good game of cricket. Unfortunately this wasn't one.

The Saturday 2's put in a good performance against table-toppers Bracknell 1's before losing by 5 wickets. The groundsmen had done a tremendous job in getting the pitch fit to play on following Friday's heavy rains. Losing the toss, Chalfont were asked to bat first on the wet track but Simon Seabrook (47) and Kevin Braithwaite (29) managed to give the innings a solid start as they put on 79 for the first wicket. Bracknell's John Kirby (5-63) bowled very tightly in the middle overs of the innings and Chalfont were starting to struggle at 108 for 4 off 40 overs. Martin Cartledge (35) then produced some fireworks, including three sixes, before Warren Scott (20) and Asif Raza (31) scored an amazing 57 off the last 5 overs with a mixture of cheeky running between the wickets and big hitting.

Bracknell's reply started very steadily and Cartledge (2-36) made two early breakthroughs. However, Heyes (44) and, in particular, Lesley (77) set about the bowling and put Bracknell in the driving seat before Jonathan Lindsay (1-33) and Javaid Ali (2-50) dismissed them both in quick succession with 40 still required. Some lusty blows by the middle order meant that Bracknell finally reached their target with 2 overs and 5 wickets to spare.

INDIAN BBQ

There will be a BBQ at the club on the above date and Shabs will be doing the Food. All club members are welcome to attend. The food will be great (£10) and hopefully the weather will hold out. Bring your friends family and come down and enjoy some great food!

Please email me if you will be coming so we can get Shabs to cater for the numbers. Any further questions you can email me on saqib.ahmed@sabre.com.

SOUL ON SUNDAYS

We have local DJs playing chilled out tunes every Sunday night for your enjoyment. Your weekend only has 3 nights. why waste one third of it because you have to go back to work on Monday morning? It's a great way to bring your weekend to a close, in a relaxed but sociable atmosphere - come and check it out for yourself.

.more than just a pub co ltd

HOCKEY OPEN DAY
The hockey open day will be on 4th September. The clubhouse will be open and there will also be matches at Newlands - I would encourage you all to get involved, which ever team you feel you might be in this coming season - if you can please contact myself or a Captain to let them know that you will be there then it will help us work out numbers. The times of games are as below:

Mens Club Match: 12:00 - 13:30
Womens Club Match: 13:30 - 15:00

UMPIRES
Congratulations to the following members that have qualified over the summer:
Paul Haythornthwaite - upgraded to a Level 1
Chris Paine - Level 1
John Spicer - Level 1
Paul Dunning - County Badge
Mark Yeomans - County Badge
Ian Ringham - County Badge

IMPORTANT - HOCKEY TREASURER
As you may be aware there are some roles vacant at the moment, and unfortunately this includes the Hockey Section Treasurer. This is a crucial role and we really need a member to come forward to take on the role - It is not a great deal of work, but obviously some understanding of figures etc. would be of use.
PLEASE please do have a think about this and speak to me if you can help with this OR any other role

The Sunday 1st XI made the short journey to Farnham Royal for its final MASL match of the season. We batted first and made 182 all out in 39.5 overs, with Adil Irfan (49) and Shahid Din (39) making the major contributions. Farnham had a West Indian "A" player who has taken 50 league wickets this season, left arm quick, and he bowled his eight overs in three spells, each time setting our innings back. The aforementioned also opened the batting and smashed a quick, if rather fortuitous, 37, and Farnham reached 80-1 in 11 overs. Thereafter, the match was really over, although we fought back well and only lost with three overs to go, 185-5 in 36.3 overs, defeat by five wickets.