The Quokkas game is back around, this season we got lucky with the weather and even though it was extremely blustery we got a game in. Remembering last season where we only got the game up in London, no home tie due to the rain.
With the “series” tied at 1-1 there was some huge pressure […]
A beautiful sunny day greeted us at the club and prepared us for what turned out to be a well balanced, very enjoyable game against Eynsham.
For the first time this season, I lost the toss, which turned out for the best as, in retrospect, I don’t think we’d have won if we’d batted first. […]
Here we are again, against the old foe Crowmarsh. Luckily (soon to become unluckily) this is not the highly competitive, life changing, win at all costs Derek Shorter Memorial match. It is only the highly competitive, life changing, win at all costs friendly between us and them.
I want to make sure Crowmarsh feel satisfied by […]
On a high from beating the Presidents XI last week, we prepared to play E&W Hendred on a warm, dry but slightly cloudy day. Having won the toss, we elected to bat first , hoping to post a suitably high score that would keep us busy for the rest of the day.
PoD and ’Bows […]
After our thumping last week at Crowmarsh Steve decided to go for a new option with the batting this week, bat first…and my gosh did it work! We managed to rack up an impressive 256 before taking enough wickets to keep them short of the total with out actually bowling them out.
Although rain had been […]
Despite the recent downpours and widespread flooding Wantage and Grove managed to find a suitable pitch for their fixture against Blewbury. It was supposed to be a home fixture but with the Wantage pitch more fit for a re enactment of the Armada it was rearranged to be played at Blewbury. The sun […]
With both teams keen for a victory, Wantage and Harwell began a good natured and smashing game of cricket. Harwell, which consisted mostly of Wantage Saturday players, fielded first with Chief Wiggum and ’Bows opening the batting for us.
Chief was caught early in the innings off of Steve Pritchard’s bowling for 3 […]
Sorry, but I’m not going to write much this week as it’s painful to type. More about that later.
The weather was good and the wicket, although played on the day before, was perfect. A good batting strip with a lovely hard surface with even bounce. I lost the toss, as usual and Swindon NALGO went […]
What a beautiful day. With the sun shining down, at last, on a marvellously prepared pitch, I turned up early at the club to find the roller parked in the middle of the wicket with John Pilcher’s legs sticking out from underneath it. I was a little concerned that the worst had happened […]
All excited about playing our first game of the season, the team congregated in the Wantage pavilion with dreams of scoring centuries, taking unbelievable diving catches and taking six wickets in one innings. Our opposition turned up and probably had similar dreams to us. What unfolded was a story of hilarity, skill, luck, […]
