2026

Sun 17 May                             Hemel Hempstead Town                                  Won by 6 wkts

They  191/6 in 40 overs   (Michael Bernard 44, Rishi Jakkappagol 40*, Freddie Lowe 36, Maxwell Clark 33, Lalit Pandey 2/25, Amit Nayyar 2/25)

We    192/4 in 38.3 overs  (Amit Shanker 87, Mohammed Ansari, Ahsan Areeb 27, Javeed Siddiqui 27*, Jacob Hodgins 2/36, Sham Akhtar 2/50)

2025

Sun 18 May                             Hemel Hempstead Town                                  Lost by 81 runs

They  251/7 in 40 overs   (Lutero Corrigan 78, Jacob Hodgins 68, Maxwell Clark 55, Amit Nayyar 2/34, Wajid Tahir 2/44)

We    170/10 in 32.5 overs  (Bhavuk Arora 82, Javeed Siddiqui 14, Extras 23, Virnanth Jayasinghe 2/13, Tayaab Sadiq 2/24, Rory Fraser 2/26, Harry Howard 2/30)

2024

Sun 19 May                             Hemel Hempstead Town                                  Lost by 53 runs

They  168/10 in 38.1 overs   (Harry Ganley 45, Adam Locke 25, Edward Pike 23, Bernard van Vuuren 2/36, Wajid Tahir 2/47)

We    115/10 in 30.2 overs  (Amit Nayyar 30, Nitin Chaturvedi 20, Harekrishna Ashar 18, Amit Shanker 17, Tyler James 2/7, Edward Pike 2/8, Harry Ganley 2/10)

Sun 21 May                             Hemel Hempstead Town                                  Lost by 3 wkts

We    179/5 in 40 overs   (Rohan Ghosh 59, Chris Ledger 32, Saurav Sen 26, Amit Nayyar 22*, Lucas Bertin 2/43, Ernie Coldwell 2/50)

They  180/7 in 40 overs  (Aaron Wilson 63, Phil Smith 40, Charlie Hoskins 26, Adam Sumner 1/23, Amit Nayyar 1/36)

 

Sun 3 July                             Hemel Hempstead Town                                  Lost by 32 runs

They   213/10 in 29.3 overs     (Dan Keene 71, Aaron Wilson 27, Extras 34, Jithin Thamdan 4/45, Eddy Barreto 3/58, Alex Tharakan 2/43)

We      181/9 in 38 overs  (Andy Stokes 44, Alex Tharakan 38, Sid Baveja 19, Extras 36, Stan Hayden 3/26, Dan Keene 2/16, Max Clark 2/24)

A match manager’s lot is not always an easy one. The team published on a Wednesday was chopped and changed beyond recognition come Sunday, and a player short. Guest players George Oram and Jithin Thamban were making their debuts for KCC. The opposition captain assured me they were fielding a lot of colts and not particularly strong. I’d heard that one before.