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Remember Buckden’s second XI, the cricket side all out for two, without a single run scored by their batsmen?
“We are genuinely not a bad team,” was skipper Joel Kirschner’s verdict after that match, and it looks like he was right.
Because one week later it’s a very different story.
Not only did Buckden score some runs – 167 of them – but they also beat Ickwell by 30 runs to register their first Huntingdonshire County League Division Four victory of the season.
“One of their players turned up for the game wearing a duck shirt – with yellow rubber ducks on it. A couple of our team spotted it and it gave everyone a bit of a spur,” Kirschner told BBC Sport.
“They won the toss and put us in – probably because of the way we’d played the week before.
“But we scored our first run straight from the get-go, off the first ball, and everyone waiting for their turn to bat had a bit of a cheer on the boundary edge.”
Buckden were only able to…
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