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. […]
Hendred Away - Win
After last season’s downpours it was great to have a hot, sunny day for a game of cricket so early in this season’s fixtures. Tweekey and I arrived at Hendred a little late having had to hand around waiting for Strawberry Lightening at Harwell who had our scorebook to write up […]
Apologies for no match report for the Cold ash game, we were let down by thereporter.
Batting:
B. Martin 7
O. Haine 4
S. Pritchard Not very many
S. Moore 25
C. Teale 0
C. Mercer 21
S. Boag 13
A. Peach 7
S. Bramley 6
T. Weekes 1
D. Henson 2 not out.
Total 98 all out
Bowling:
S. Moore 7-2-13-0
C. Mercer 4-0-25-0
D. Henson 7-0-14-1
A. Peach 7-1-16-2
S. Boag […]
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 […]
The day began with the match getting a brief mention on Radio 4. Paddy O’Connell caught our attention by first mentioning that Tim Weekes of Wantage, Oxfordshire had written in by email. Tweekey! What salient point could Tweekey be raising that was worth mentioning on Radio 4? Apparently there was a big black cloud over […]
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 […]
After some difficulties trying to get a team together for the match against Cold Ash, I ended up with some regulars and four new players in the squad. The first dilemma was that none of the regulars are wicket keepers, so the gloves went to Andrew “Barry’s mate” Pye who said that he’d kept […]
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, […]
