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| Pat Foster 5-57 |
With morning leaders Oxford crashing to 86 all out and a heavy six-wicket defeat at home to promotion rivals Amersham it's all change at the top. Horspath now sit at the summit two points clear of Amersham, with Oxford four points further back in third as the season reverts to win-lose 50-over matches next week.
Foster took 5-57 as Cookham Dean were bowled out for 163 after electing to bat. The visitors had 34 on the board before Adam Price made the breakthrough when captain Ben Millar hooked a short delivery into Robbie Eason's hands on the square leg boundary. The second wicket fell in similar fashion with skipper Will Eason this time the bowler as his brother caught Patrick Castleden at deep square leg for 35, making it 58-2.
A Will Eason (2-22) inswinger then accounted for Yash Rastogi lbw without scoring, and it was 92-4 when Christian Green sent an underside edge to wicket-keeper Jasper Davies as he attempted to pull a ball from Foster.
The Horspath seamer struck again with a beautiful delivery which seamed back in and hit the top of Zimbabwean Herbert Chikomba's middle stump to make it 104-5. One run later, Foster claimed his third victim, this time with an away swinger, which beat Kurran Mangat's outside edge to hit off stump after the Cookham batsman had made 27.
Lunch came with the visitors 115-6, and Cookham took the score on to 138 after the interval before Richard Lucas was trapped lbw by left-arm spinner Lloyd Belcher. Without any addition to the score, Tom Bibby edged a Foster delivery into the slips where Price spooned the ball up into the air and Will Eason pouched the rebound.
Foster completed his five-wicket haul when Robert Mettler was caught at long on by Shahbaz Ali to make it 148-9. And Belcher (2-41) wrapped the innings up when Faizaan Shamsi sent a looping catch to Harrison Ward at extra cover.
Openers Robbie Eason and Jamie Stead got Horspath's run chase off to the perfect start with some good shots as Cookham's bowlers struggled to find any consistency. They put on 80 for the first wicket when Stead spooned a catch to Chikomba at mid-wicket off Castleden for 36, which included eight fours. Eason had made 42, also with eight boundaries, when he fell in similar fashion, caught by Bibby off Simret Mangat, making it 106-2.
Jimmy Phillips was adjudged lbw to Castleden, and Shahbaz was bowled by Mangat, before Rameez Raja (29no) and Harrison Ward (26no) secured victory at 167-4 off 30.2 overs. Rameez hit a six and four boundaries in his 17-ball cameo, while Ward cracked six fours, finishing the game in style by smashing consecutive boundaries off Shamsi.
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