CRICKET
Saturday 1st XI, lost by 9 wickets against Tring Park II
Saturday 2nd XI, won by 88 runs against Eversley II
Sunday 1st XI, Cancelled
Sunday 2nd XI, Cancelled

SOFTBALL
Flames won 30-7 against Thames Valley Rangers
Phoenix lost 10-15 against Chargers (Cup)

CRICKET
Saturday 1st XI, Home against Stoke Green, 1.30pm
Saturday 2nd XI, Away against Slough II, 1.30pm
Sunday 1st XI, Away against Kidmore End, 1.30pm
Sunday 2nd XI, Home, Father & Son, 2.00pm

SOFTBALL
Thu 30th June, Flames, away against Rhythm II, 7.00pm

LOAN SCHEME DRAW

Those who attended the CPSA AGM last Friday (17th June 2005) at the club witnessed the latest, and a special, Loan Scheme Draw in which Caroline Chipperfield drew 5 numbers. The lucky winners were Mike Johnstone (no.24), Jim Bridge (no.10), Doug Barr (no.9), Neil Turner (no.39) and Heidi James (no.23). Thanks again for the continued support of all the Loan Scheme members.

A visit to Tring Park is always a quality experience, especially on a hot, sunny afternoon. A cracking flat batting deck and fast outfield generally ensures a tough day for the bowlers. Tring 2XI have a young side that improves with every season, which is good to see, and you always know you are in for a tough game - with a few verbals thrown in for good measure. We were not disappointed.

Batting first definitely felt like a bonus given the hot conditions, and Chalfont made a bright start (55 for 2 from 13 overs). Tahir Rashid (81) again leading the way with some classy drives through the covers and mid wicket. Progress was maintained for the next 10 overs or so with Zeddy Khan working the ball around nicely to support Tahir, before a glut of five quickish wickets really had Chalfont on the back foot (123 for 8 from 35 overs). Shahid Din holding firm throughout the collapse with some excellent batting, gave us hope - if only he could find a tail end partner to get the innings going again. Enter Mudo Ahmed A.K.A Jonty Rhodes! Mudo (10 not out), is a great character to have in the team and can be relied upon for everything... apart from runs, really did the business here providing fantastic support as Shahid (70 not out) continued his great form and slayed the bowling towards the end of the innings. A final total of 210 for 8 from 52 overs ensured respectability, and maximum batting points, but looked a fair way short of par on a batting pitch. The wicket probably quickened up in the heat, making batting even easier for the side coming in second, and we had the a*se end of a couple of LBW decisions but, a couple of batters apart, it wasn't the greatest display. Their opening bowler toiled for 24 overs in the sun which earned a round of applause, and a shower hopefully.

Tea - extremely reasonable - and the Aussies were just starting to get battered by Bangladesh on Sky Sports.

Into the field, and an early wicket to give us hope, then that was about it! Tring Park 211 for 1 from 34 overs. We didn't bowl particularly badly, but the Tring lads just batted very sensibly, playing through the line on a pitch offering very little assistance.

Chalfont 10 points. Tring Park 2XI 20 points.

FIELDHOCKEY TV

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has started screening its four-weekly television magazine program, BDO WorldHockey Monthly, over the Internet on FieldHockey TV.

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 Andy Parsons, Saqib Ahmed, Rahul Punj or Dan Webb.

CHALFONT ST. PETER U14 V PENN STREET U14

Probably the best colts game I have witnessed was played in the gloom at Chalfont last Thursday evening.

Penn Street won the toss and elected to bat. After one opener was caught behind by Robert Smalley off the bowling of Jeremy Turner the second pair put on 46 runs. The greater contribution was from their opening batsman, who with assistance from their number 4 went on to score 94 runs (10x4's, 5x6's), a great individual effort. The strike rate of over 7 an over was only temporarily slowed by 3 fine overs of off spin by Aman Dhatt. Their number 6 was run out by a fine piece of cricket by wicket keeper Tom Smalley, who saw that he was backing up a long way, and a direct hit at the bowlers stumps left him yards short from safety. Best of the bowlers was Akshay Gukati, (4-0-20-1) who eventually clean bowled their number 1, and Jeremy Turner (4-0-22-1), but with a total of 148 for 5 wickets, there were few bets on them losing.

Openers Paul Neave and Jeremy Turner got our reply off to a brilliant start with a stand of 45 off 6 overs before Paul was unluckily caught (15 off 18) trying to force the run rate. But they had seen off the opening spell of their strike bowlers. Tom Smalley (7 off 5) and Zak Cunningham (14 off 20) kept the score board rolling, then skipper Akshay came in when we were 93 for 4 off 14 overs. With the score on 108, in the 16th over, Jeremy was bowled (46 off 42, 4x4's, 1x6) and Arthur Keyes from the U12's and Grant Bradbury (U13's) were called upon to support Akshay, who had decided to go for it. With 2 overs to go, 33 was needed to win. With a 6 and 3 4's in the over, a no ball and an extra, the target was reduced to 13 for the final over. A 4, a 2, and a 6, and we needed one run off the last 3 balls to win. The field closed in, to save the single, but Akshay saved the biggest 6 of the night for that moment. As the ball bounced off the roof of Shabs' equipment store, the next sound to be heard was the Penn Street's manager's jaw hitting the floor. He could not believe that after scoring 148 his team would lose. That's just over 300 runs in an U14, 20 over match.

Akshay's last 9 balls were: 4, 6, 4, ., 4, 4, 2, 6, 6, and a total of 45 off 22.

Jeremy's last 3 innings are 50, 31 n.o., and 46.

TV RANGERS 9 - CP FLAMES 29

After last weeks record breaking performance the Flames once again played superb softball to move themselves up to third in the league.

The first innings set the tone, 8 runs being scored with home runs from both James and Chris, having listened to Wardy's coaching tip, 'hit it to the *** one in right field'. The fielding was excellent with all three outs being made on third base (including a great catch) by Lloydy. One other highlight was watching Chris diving to stop and Lara taking evasive action to miss a ball drilled through second base. TV eventually managed to scramble to 4 runs.

The second innings effectively killed the game off with the Flames scoring 11, batting through the order again, with a walk, clever base hitting (from Mark, Sara, Wotto and Charlie) and another home run. The fielding was even better, TV going three up and three down, with further excellent play in the infield.

The third inning highlight was loading the bases for Simon to bring them all home with a Grand Slam, before taking the field to shut them out again. With good pitching from Sara and the outfield (Rowie and Mark) stopping any ball and returning it quickly to stop TV scoring even one.

The fourth innings brought James his third home run of the day as the Flames cruised into a 22 run lead after the top of the fourth, TV managed to prolong their agony by scoring three to make Flames lead 19 by the end of the fourth.
But they were only delaying the inevitable and after clever base coaching from Geoff to load the bases, the runners were brought in by James to give him 11 RBI's for the game. The fielding was again superb, shutting out TV for a well deserved victory.

Congratulations to all on another fine win, with clever batting and excellent fielding. The Flames are looking forward to the second half of the season and hopefully further success.

A big thank you to Dan (1st base coach), Geoff (3rd base coach) and Woody for scoring. Hope you enjoyed the game!

CHARGERS 15 - CHALFONT PARK PHOENIX 10

Well, it had to happen sometime, maybe it was the "long" journey to Brentford, the beautiful early evening sunshine in our eyes, it could have been the spooky full moon, or maybe it was because I wasn't wearing my lucky pants, but it all went horribly wrong for Phoenix last night!

Looking on the bright side, if there was ever a game to play like eejits, this was it, a cup game rather than a league game and play like eejits we did, so much so that there aren't really any highlights to recount in this report! We did visit a nice Irish pub after the game though.

We still had our "one big innings" but unfortunately it happened too late, in the final inning and only served to make the score just a little more respectable, maybe it could have been closer if I hadn't buckled under the pressure of stepping up to bat with two outs and the bases loaded, and promptly put it straight down the throat of their pesky left fielder. Game over.

Congratulations to me on being voted MVP in the pub (with a whopping 2 votes!) and commiserations to Dan for getting Donkey of the Day, believe me, there were plenty of contenders for that one!

Thanks very much to Martin for umpiring magnificently and to Chris for stepping into the breach to pitch for us.

Hopefully we can revert to our significantly more impressive league form in a fortnight when we have two games on successive nights at Chalfont Park.

Finally, apologies to Clare Winter who didn't get her well deserved mention for MVP in last weeks league win over FBI, because I didn't do a report!

It was hot, real hot, crotch pot cooking hot, and all any sane person really wanted to do was melt with a pint, an ice cream, and busty beauty rubbing sun cream in to my skin... oops sorry.

Anyway, Chalfont 2's welcomed league leaders Eversley 2's to Chalfont Park and were rather surprised to see they prep for the game by doing 20 mins of stretching. Well, it was a bit cold and they obviously didn't want to pull a muscle. Chalfont on the other hand had a fag and a chat!

Captain Potts won the toss. If he did nothing else right this season the boy did good this time and elected to bat! The opening partnership of Gooch and Potts was reunited again and both senior bats were soon making the opposition sweat. It was only in the 21st over that Potty was caught for 29, with Chalfont already on 76. Not that much to smile about if you were a burning Eversley player. Goochie had started to crash the ball around concreting the misery upon the Eversley players. Asim in at number 3 and was soon looking good with some classy strokes before he missed the straight one and was bowled 18. Goochie was out two balls later for a cracking 78 which meant a totally new partnership of Scott and Hewston came together in the 30th over. A slight role reversal saw Warren get off the mark and push early on as Tony was struggling to get to grips with the heat. However an understanding was soon established and the runs started to flow all around the ground and also onto the 3rd fairway. Both batsmen hit and run well and forged an unbroken partnership of 118, with Tony finishing on 56 not out and Warren beating his previous personal best scoring 35 not out. Chalfont's total 252 for 3 in their 52 overs.

Tea time and it was far too hot to eat anything, although there was some lovely prawn and salmon sandwiches, which on any other day would have been scoffed down heartily. I can definitely recommend a cold shower. And today's top tip is always, always to carry a second jock strap in your bag!

Chalfont opened their attack with Mr Enthusiasm, Glenn Stephens who believes that every ball he bowls is worthy of a wicket, and his young prodigy Peter (if I appeal enough I'm bound to get something) Waters. Combined with the incoherent bleatings from Adam behind the stumps, Chalfont were soon looking very village!

Not wanting to take to much of an early initiative Chalfont put a couple of chances down, and had to wait until Akshay was brought into the attack in the 12th over to claim their first wicket. This brought to the wicket Eversley's dangerous looking overseas player who had definitely held a bat before. The introduction of Tony with some loopy flight and guile had him all of a quiver and it was the fast yorker that had him trapped in front LBW for 18.

The Eversley men were looking like they didn't like the slow stuff and so on came our slow pie chucker extraordinaire Potty to baffle them with slow high straights ones, one after the other.

Loopy Hewston at the other end enjoyed success with two more wickets, one caught by Glen at mid on and another caught and bowled. Potty meanwhile managed to con the batsman into blasting one of his high leg side pies into Akshay's hands. Eversley had a brief period of respite but then lost four wickets in quite quick succession. The big hitting cowboy lured into a swing and bowled by Tony, the anxious looking pie eater lost his nerve and ran himself out, another LBW by Tony which he really didn't want to walk for saying it wasn't fair as he hadn't scored many and this was his last game before being posted to Iraq, and a caught and bowled by Potts.

Chalfont were on the verge of winning and were only temporarily thwarted by some rather boring defence before Glenn was brought back to find the edge and thus seal the 25 points. Thank you very much and good night Charlie.

A cracking win by Chalfont but spare a thought for Eversley who travelled miles, stood fielding in the heat for 3.5 hours taking only 3 wickets, got bowled out, and then had to drive home knowing that all that work resulted in just 4 points and the submission of their top spot in the league. Arghhhhh!