
The 1st team’s bowling attack kept Radlett down to a chaseable total as Chad Barrett and Jesse Tashkoff shared 6 wickets between them. Then half-centuries from skipper Jimmy Latham and Usman Malik, plus some big hitting from Alex Gosling, eased us to a 5-wicket victory with plenty of overs remaining:
Radlett: 200 all out off 59.3 overs (Barrett 3-14, Tashkoff 3-80)
Harpenden: 204-5 off 32.2 overs (J Latham 61, Usman Malik 61, Gosling 47 not out)
The Women’s 1st team suffered a rare defeat, going down only by 5 runs to Broxbourne:
Broxbourne: 136-5 off 20 overs (Grace Betteridge 2-22)
Harpenden: 131-7 off 20 overs (Lucy Bell 43 not out)
The 2nd team dispatched Radlett 2s by 6 wickets, skittling out the oppo for a low total courtesy of wickets from Sam Calladine and Tom Beasley. Max Latter and Tom Beasley then formed the bedrock of the comfortable run chase:
Radlett: 149 all out off 42.2 overs (Calladine 4-32, Beasley 3-33)
Harpenden: 150-4 off 23.1 overs (Latter 50, Beasley 35)
The 3rd team edged out Sandridge by 2 runs in a squeaky-bum finish at The G. Gareth Taylor, Ben Newton and Ben Yurkwich all scored half-centuries and Matthew Dugmore was the pick of the bowlers with 3 wickets:
Harpenden: 218-7 off 40 overs (G Taylor 54, Newton 53, Yurkwich 51)
Sandridge: 216-6 off 40 overs (Dugmore 3-29, Newton 2-34)
The Women’s 3rd team beat Dunstable Town by 5 runs. Fiona Challacombe claimed 3 wickets:
Dunstable Town: 142-5 off 20 overs (Net Score 317) (Challacombe 3-14)
Harpenden: 142-4 off 20 overs (Net Score 322) (Thea Randhawa 20)
The 4th team did well to restrict Bushey 2s to a gettable target but couldn’t get a big partnership going in reply and lost by 42 runs. Skipper Belal Hussain took 3 wickets and Toby Grimberg struck a powerful unbeaten 40:
Bushey: 178 all out off 40 overs (Hussain 3-28, Hughes 2-25, J Taylor 2-33)
Harpenden: 136 all out off 30.5 overs (T Grimberg 40 not out, Baines 31)
The 5th team endured a tough day at the office against division leaders Old Elizabethans 3s, losing by 194 runs:
Old Elizabethans: 273-7 off 40 overs (K McGrandle 2-46, Edward 2-64)
Harpenden: 79 all out off 32.1 overs (Edward 23)
The 6th team came out second best against Dunstable Town 4s and went down by 7 wickets:
Harpenden: 104 all out off 23.1 overs
Dunstable Town: 105-3 off 18.1 overs
The 7th team found the going hard against Potten End and lost by 240 runs. Joe Peel claimed 4 wickets:
Potten End: 287-9 off 40 overs (Peel 4-57, I McGrandle 2-35)
Harpenden: 47 all out off 20.2 overs