Richmond 214 Finchley 169-9

Middlesex County League Division One

Finchley stayed bottom of the table when they could only manage a point from the drawn home game with Richmond on Saturday.

Although some of their batsmen made promising 20s and 30s, they failed to develop their innings.

After Richmond made a slow start, Price (75) and Barlow improved the situation, until Sarel Cilliers (3-60) ripped through the middle order.

Keerthi Ranasinghe (3-28) mopped up the tail after Richmond's last three wickets added 54 for a total of 214 (Roger Ford 3-69).

Finchley soon lost Paritosh Ghadiali, but Josh Knappett (25) and Robbie Hodges led a recovery, and Jake Milton (28) and Shabs Khan added 35 for the fifth wicket. But Finchley could only reach 169-9, and Richmond took four run-rate points.

Finchley are away to Ealing on Saturday (11.30am).

Finchley II 165 (B Haig 36, K Bharadia 35), Richmond II 166-1. Richmond III 177 (G Matthews 4-18), Finchley 125 (A Bloom 58, L Woolridge 38).

July 16, 2002 16:00