A disastrous batting performance by 10-man Harrow lost them their Thames Valley League Division Two encounter with Thatcham Town on Saturday.

A good start saw Harrow on 33 without loss after only seven overs, but openers Mike Kirman (10) and Vinny Samant (24) went almost in tandem. After another short partnership, Harrow lost four more wickets without the score moving off 54 left and had only three wickets standing.

Andrew Gibbons (20) and Prashant Naik (11) batted well, but as soon as their partnership was broken, no more runs were scored and Harrow were all out for 86.

Harrow tried their best to get at least a point by taking two or more wickets, but even that proved beyond them as Thatcham romped home to an easy victory.

The local side almost kept fancied Richmond at bay on Sunday. The match went to the final ball.

A game which started well with Nikhil Kapur (71) batting superbly throughout, ended with the last ball and consequent winning run, being dropped.

A simple catch to most was made difficult as Mitesh Patel failed to both catch it and then to run out the oncoming batsman.

Tom Brockton (38 not out) and Richard Bennison (19) both batted well and helped Harrow's total to 181 for seven, but Richmond made it to 182 for seven at the last gasp.

Paul Stewart took three Richmond wickets for 49 runs.

A classic local encounter left both sides' supporters on the edge of their seats on Bank Holiday Monday as Harrow and Eastcote fought out a draw.

Harrow put themselves in to bat and were gifted a lot of early runs with Nikhil Kapur (74) top scoring again and Russell Dawson on 34 not out.

They received good support from Aaron Taylor (33) and Shazad Shah (31) as they knocked up 248 runs in just 48 overs and declared ahead of schedule with seven wickets down.

Good opening spells by Aaron Taylor (two for 90) and Russell Dawson (none for 21) restricted Eastcote early on and it looked like being a boring last 20 overs, but suddenly the runs started coming and Eastcote were looking good.

The father/son combination of John (one for 74) and Keith (one for 24) took a couple more wickets and Eastcote still needed 60 off the last six overs and eventually a six off the last ball.

It wasn't to be and draw was probably the fair result of an exciting game.

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