Cookham Dean Cricket Club News story


DEPLETED DEAN HEAD INTO FINAL LEAGUE WEEKEND

04 Sep 2009

Cookham Dean's two league sides will look to end their Thames Valley League seasons on a high but will have to do it the hard way with both sides missing a number of regular players.

The First team travel to promotion chasing Royal Ascot and will be looking to put the brakes on their promotion charge after upsetting Chenies and Latimer last week. George Edlin and Clive Lambden are unavailable which means that Jake Richardson and Simon D'Ardenne earn recalls.

1st XI: B. Millar, T. Bibby, R. Millar, J. Richardson, S. D'Ardenne, C. Nunn, C. Austin, S. Gandesha, A. Patel, A. O'Donoghue, P. Patel.

The 2nds complete a double header against Royal Ascot and are without skipper Richard Bibby who is playing in a baseball competition, Mark Fish skippers in his absence. Other regulars missing include Dave Brooks while Mike Cutting is suffering with numerous injuries. Andy Pett has yet to recover from his leg injury as well. The side is boosted by the returns of Ollie Freeman, Arun Brar and Guy Glover who looks set to keep wicket. A number of other unavailables means that 3rd team skipper Jonathan Gay and 3rd team opening bowler Andy Partridge make only their second league appearances of the season. John Gay also steps into the breach for only his second league appearance for the Dean, the last one coming against Royal Ascot in the corresponding fixture last season.

2nd XI: Tom Wells-Cole, Mark Fish, Arun Brar, Shaun Glover, Guy Glover, Ollie Freeman, Rob Mettler, Jonathan Gay, John Gay, Andy Partridge, Isaac Richardson.