Match Reports

Eynsham – Home – Victory

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. So we went out into the hot sun to field and bowl at the strong Eynsham batting lineup. The first thing that surprised us was the aggressive batting style of the Eynsham number one who tried to smack…continue reading →

Crowmarsh – Home – Victory

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 this match report, after some website abuse which was received from one of their players, who will remain nameless, because looking at the scorebook he didn’t dare show his face at the ground (or of course gave…continue reading →

Hendred – Away – Victory

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 last weeks match report (apparently it’s on it’s way) and had left it at home so had to go back to get it. I won the toss (that’s three in a row!) and controversially decided to field in…continue reading →

Cold Ash – Away – Defeat

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 5-0-16-4 B. Martin 2.2-0-2-0 Cold Ash's total 99 for 7continue reading →

Minster Lovell – Home – Defeat

It's that time again! welcome to the new season and the first game of the year and with that, we require the first write up of the season... I, (PoD) volunteered, gives me the chance to big myself up a bit more. Last Sunday, we took on Minster Lovell at home, 2pm start, great weather. Okay thatcontinue reading →

E&W Hendred – Defeat

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 opened the batting and looked good for a couple of overs with the score ticking over at five an over until ’Bows cut one away to point and was caught for 4. I came in to replace him…continue reading →

Cold Ash – Victory

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 forecast for Sunday it turned out to be a very nice afternoon for cricket, warm enough with plenty of sun but occasional cloud cover. As Steve elected to bat first he decided he should lead by example…continue reading →

Crowmarsh – Defeat

Last Sunday was the game that many of us chose to avoid, mainly as it was Crowmarsh away, and the usual associated aggro! Unfortunately 11 of us had to play, and we bravely stepped out to field in thirty degree heat to give them 35 of our best! We bowled admirably but again our batting let us down as we failed to threaten their total. However, returning captain Steve was feeling optimistic early on and chose to put the home team into bat and Barry and Moobs opened the bowling and after the…continue reading →

Blewbury – Defeat

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 shone for the entire afternoon, and allowed the full game to be played, and although W+G fielded and bowled well a truly world class batting collapse meant they were unable to tot up enough runs to win what should have…continue reading →