Cricket round-up: Wokingham 2s maintain winning start to season

BCL Premier Division
FARLEY HILL 1s got off the mark with their first win of the season with a seven wicket win over Stratfield Turgis/Harley Wespall.

Startfield batted first and collected 152 runs from 31 overs as James Smart took three wickets for Farley.

In bat, they reached the revised target to take the points as David Drury smashed 83 runs and Ali Jalil hit 40 took them to victory.

Eversley CC (batting) v Finchampstead 2s Tom Nichols batting.

BCL Division 1
FARLEY HILL 2s were defeated by six wickets as Waltham St Lawrence reached a revised target to take the points.
Kevin Brown top scored for Farley with 55 runs from 71 balls in the defeat.

Thames Valley Division 2B
WOKINGHAM 2s maintained their winning start to the campaign with an emphatic 111-run win over Fleet 1s.

Ben Myles (83) and Ben Green (66) helped the Oaks to a big total of 241.

Matthew McDonald and Jack Fisher collected three wickets each as the Oaks secured a big victory.

Eversley CC (batting) v Finchampstead 2s Alan Kite (Finch) bowling

Thames Valley Division 4A
WOKINGHAM 3s are at the top of the table after they beat Reading 2s by 23 runs.

Michael Cowdell fell just two runs short of reaching a century as he opened the batting for the Oaks, who finished on 209.

The Oaks secured the points as Salman Khalid starred with the ball as he took five wickets from seven overs.

Thames Valley Division 6B
FINCHAMPSTEAD 4s head up the league table after they earned an eight-wicket win over HURST 2s.
Tom Hibbs top scored for Hurst with 33, while Matt Arnold and Chris May both took three wickets for Finch.

Webb top scored for Finch with 39 as they sealed a comfortable win.

Eversley CC (batting) v Finchampstead 2s James Magowan batting

BCL Division 2 East
EARLEY 2s beat Mortimer 1s by just 18 runs to take victory.

Binny Zutshi was the top performer with the ball for Earley as he collected four wickets.

Chilterns Division 2
EMMBROOK AND BEARWOOD 2s lost by seven wickets to The Lee 2s.

Matt Mead top scored for Emmbrook with 63 runs as they hit 169 before they were bowled
all out.

Paul Hunsdon took two wickets, but The Lee managed to reach the target to take the win.

Berkshire National Village Cup
BINFIELD moved into the semi-finals of the Berkshire section of the National Village Cup following a dramatic 1-0 victory in their bowl-off at home to Peppard Stoke Row on Sunday.

With play washed out the week before, the two sides managed to get 14 overs in before the rain returned, the hosts standing on 55-2 having lost the toss.

This meant a bowl-off where all 11 players from both teams would deliver one ball, and Binfield followed in the footsteps of their footballing neighbours, who play in the FA Vase final on Saturday, by sealing progress in the shoot-out.

PSR went first, but fell behind when Ian Goddard struck with the hosts’ second effort, and remarkably the next 17 players all missed the target to allow Binfield through.

Visiting wicket-keeper Mark Lambert was the nearest to hitting the stumps for PSR.

Binfield host Cookham Dean on Sunday (1pm).