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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It was a lovely day for a game of cricket. It wasn’t too cold and it wasn’t too hot. A slight breeze blew across the wicket drying it into a perfect batting surface. Eleven Wantage players gathered at the bar alongside ex-Wantage players and guests of Geoff Bailey and brought their blood-alcohol […]
