CRICKET
Saturday 1st XI, won by 5 wickets against Reading II
Saturday 2nd XI, lost by 2 wickets against Hampton Hill II
Sunday 1st XI, lost by 5 wickets against Burnham
Sunday 2nd XI, won by 3 wickets against Gerrards Cross

SOFTBALL
Flames won 35-1 against Waifs and Strays
Phoenix won 23-8 against FBI

CRICKET
Saturday 1st XI, Away against Tring Park II, 1.30pm
Saturday 2nd XI, Home against Eversley II, 1.30pm
Sunday 1st XI, Home against Stoke Green
Sunday 2nd XI, Breachwood Green Sixes Comp

SOFTBALL
Wed 22nd June, Phoenix, Away against Chargers, 7.30pm
Fri 24th May, Flames, Away against Tecumseh, 7.30pm

AGM - THIS FRIDAY

The CPSA AGM is this Friday evening, preceded by the Hockey EGM (only very brief). Please come along and find out what has been going on and find out where the future of CPSA is going! Your chance to have some say! Don't miss it, don't miss out!

DOUG MACCOLL

Doug and family are currently over in the country from Australia visting various friends and relatives. He popped in to say hello at last nights Phoenix game but will be around for a longer chat before the Sports Club AGM tomorrow evening (Friday). Bar will be open from about 6.30pm if you would like to catch up with them.

UMPIRING COURSE

The Umpiring Course starts at the club next Tuesday (21st June) at 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start. Anyone still interested in attending should contact Jo Peters on jo.peters99@tiscali.co.uk or Ph: 01753 890497.

A&C BADGERS FIRST MATCH

The A&C Badgers played their first match on Tuesday night against Aylesbury. With a great mix of youth and experience the team set off without Captain Jim Keenan in midfield (delayed arrival), instead relying on the young Simon Archer to drive the midfield play. Within minutes a pattern of pass and move had been established with Simon finding gaps through to the wider players and despite not having too much penetration into the opposing D, a great deal of possession was maintained by the side.

Men's Thirds Captain Simon Beedell and Chris "Gobby" Yoxall showed that the defensive future of the Club is in solid hands as they kept Aylesbury pinned outside the 25 at all times, and used pace and power to intercept and keep the A&C attack on the front foot. It took a while, but towards the middle of the half Danny Thomas started to get good ball fed into his well timed runs, and using Alex Bagehot and Tom Richardson on the wings started to push the advantage home.

With the building pressure, the midfield slowly got the upper hand and several well controlled passing moves led to opportunities on goal. It was eventually a sweeping move down the left that gave the Badgers their opening goal and was always likely to lead to more.

As Aylesbury gained in stature they started to get the ball into the heart of the defence and had several great opportunities to attack the goal, but at centre back Tim Gossage showed great experience and nerve to take hold the attack, and then clear under pressure, always making sure that control of the ball was retained by A&C. This gave a solid platform for A&C to eventually regain control and towards the end of the half were able to set Ben Smith away in the D a couple of times to test the left back and then keeper.

It was an encouraging start for the Badgers who gained in confidence and style throughout the match and who will be looking for more opposition in coming weeks. Thanks should go to Aylesbury for being such good opposition in a great and evenly fought game, thanks to Guy who umpired and Watsy, Jim, Charlie and Painey who gave some extra "experience" to the side and Watsy for arranging the fixture!

CRICKET STATS
Following excellent work by all captains, Tony Hewston and Neil Turner, the cricket statistics for the season to date are now up on the club website. These statisitcs will be automatically updated when each captain enters their scorebook into a custom written administration site.

BOYS U13'S
The under 13's lost two games this week to two very strong sides. Beaconsfield in the conference and Chesham in the cup.

Batting first against Beaconsfield, we were restricted to 78 for 6 by some very good bowling. The boys fielded and bowled extremely well and it was not until the 17th over that they got the winning runs.

In the cup game against a very strong Chesham side we were resticted to 63. Chesham had a very strong bowling side and to be fair it was great bowling rather than poor batting that put us in a tough position.

The boys again showed great spirit with a good bowling performance early on but we did not have enough runs on the board. Pleasing to see only one wide bowled though.

This week we are at home on Sunday with a 10am start.

Thanks to Jonathon for your support all season and it was great to see Dan coaching the lads on Friday. We will be coaching again from 5.30 to 7.00 this Friday.

INDIAN BBQ AND CASINO NIGHT

Saturday 16th July. Tickets £10 including all food and gambling chips. Try your hand at Blackjack, Roulette and Texas Hold 'em Poker. Prizes for the luckiest gamblers on the night.

For more information and to buy tickets please contact either Andy Parsons, Saqib Ahmed, Rahul Punj or Dan Webb.

It was a time of great battle.
It was time for those that came to stand up and be counted.
It was a time for warriors.

Gerrards Cross visited the hallowed ground of Chalfont on Sunday, only to return to their six bedroom mansions, expensive cars and army of servants empty handed, having been comprehensively beaten by the warriors from the train stationless village.

Chalfont old boy, Charles Cemlyn-Jones, who has crossed to the darkside, opened for GX, but the mighty power of Lindsay had him rocked, edging it behind twice - only to be dropped. A charmed life indeed was led by this town dweller.

Yoxall, from tiny St Peter, took first blood, the Cinema-laden-town opener lofting to Hales. Lindsay then got his angry head on and dispatched the dark-lord-of-the-Cross with a perfect yorker. Webb got in on the act, bowling his finest pies and taking two wickets. But Chalfont were woeful in the field, and shall be summoned to fielding practice early for the next three weeks. Dropped catches, bad pick-ups, no long barrier - you name it, we did it. GX saw their battered opponents were down and declared on 206-4.

A generous total considering the batting line up. Then disaster, Collins and Scott out in consecutive overs, 4-2. Then came the fireworks. Hales (G) and Hales (A) opened their shoulders and smashed ball after ball from the ground, Chalfont looking to be cantering to the target when they were out going for big shots for 81 and 88. Andersen and Yoxall fell cheaply, before Webb, playing what can only be described as 'not a cricket shot' and more like 'violent swinging' made 14* to guide the village to victory over its better known, but less salubrious neighbour, by 3 wickets.

They may have the cinema, but we have the win!

Last week against Bledlow we only had four bowlers and got away with it, but it was our Achilles Heel this week against a strong Burnham team.

Playing for the first time at Burnham's new purpose-built and lottery-funded ground, we won the toss and batted first on a cool afternoon. Despite an excellent track and a fast-scoring outfield, we struggled against some tight bowling and had to settle for 181-5 from our 40 overs. Justin Weller top scored with 46, well supported by Zamir Khan with 36 not out.

Burnham's openers struggled against tight Chalfont bowling and some unusually tight fielding, and at 60-1 from 18 overs it was game on. At this point their star batsman came to the crease (previous two innings: 190 v. Beaconsfield and 130 v. Gerrards Cross - that is him on his own, not his team ...). However he succumbed to a serious bout of over-confidence and top-edged to backward square - another notable scalp for Zeddy! Now it was definitely game on, and Burnham had still only reached 110-3 after 27 overs. However, our four main bowlers only had four overs left between them, and this proved to be the crucial factor as Burnham accelerated away to 185-5 after 34 overs.

So, defeat by five wickets, but a fine effort against strong opposition.

Reading 2nd XI were the visitors to Chalfont Park on Saturday. These guys have been regular under achievers since entering Division 2B a few seasons ago, always talented in the batting and bowling departments but generally finishing low down the league at the end of the season.

Reading, on winning the toss, decided to bat on a green but flat wicket. The Chalfont track, in my opinion, can appear in many forms during a season, sometimes green, sometimes yellow/white, sometimes more grass than others, but generally still plays the same. Prior to the start Satish, obviously spying the opportunity to fetch out a few of the old tweaking leg spinners at some stage during the game, decided the boundary rope had been laid out too short following the youth team in the morning and promptly shifted it back 20 yards. There's definitely no substitute for experience.

Walking out to field, albeit in lovely surroundings, with only 8 team mates as two of the boys didn't get to the ground until an hour after the start, is not the most inspiring feeling. This certainly showed as Reading cruised through the first 12 overs (58-0), through no lack of effort from the opening bowlers Saqib Ahmed and Shahid Din. A full complement of players obviously lifted the team as Chalfont fought back into the match taking 3 quick wickets to slow the run rate. The first innings turned out to be a see-saw affair, Reading having a good start, Chalfont then looked as though they had restricted the opposition to around 150, before the biggest bloke in the world started crashing it around like 250 wouldn't be an issue. Typical of the season so far Chalfont dug in and produced a great last 12 overs to bowl out Reading for 172 in the 49th over. Fariq Ahmed (4-20) bowled a fine spell from the golf course end, er hang on, to rip out the last four wickets cheaply.

A fine tea. Only spoilt by Saqib (The King Dong), using all his experience to sit quietly at the sandwich table for 5 mins, patiently waiting for me to get the kitchen counter then all of a sudden from the other room - 'two sugars in mine mate'. Every chuffing time.

Into bat with the confidence that winning brings, nobody in the side really feeling anxious chasing the target. Another solid start (60-2 from 13 overs) giving Chalfont every chance of success, Tahir Rashid leading the way with some quality batting, well supported by Zed Khan (26). A couple of quick wickets fell but Tahir (81) continued his free scoring and Shahid Din (40 not out), looking in great form, cracked the ball around to ensure a comfortable win (174 for 5) from 43 overs.

Chalfont 20 points. Reading 2XI 8 points.