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Bernard Tollett & Wilf Bennett Trophy Semi Finals Update

23/07/2021 by Nick Pinhol

Bernard Tollett and Wilf Bennett Trophy Updates

Following games this week the updated Semi-Final draws are below:

– Aston Rowant beat Challow & Childrey by 4 wickets with Tristan Rossouw 32no; Leo Bethell 26; Dominic Whatman 3 for 16 and William Pendered 2 for 36. The pick of Challow’s bowlers being Joe Harris 3 for 11 and James Newton-Savage 2 for 14.

– Langford beat Thame Town by 75 runs with Harry Stevens 90; Tom Stevens 2 for 29 and Matt Bicker 2 for 18. Luke Hayes 44no for Thame.

– Brackley CC v Oxford CC to be played on 27 July

Bernard Tollett Semi-Finals:

SF 1 – Banbury CC v Oxford Downs CC

SF 2 – Horspath CC v Aston Rowant CC

Wilf Bennett Semi-Finals:

SF 1 – Brackley CC or Oxford CC v Langford CC

SF 2 – Oxenford CC v Henley CC

Match Report – Oxon GU18 v Dorset GU18 (Wednesday 21st July)

23/07/2021 by Nick Pinhol

Oxfordshire Girls Under-18s 196-8 (40 ovs; Lottie Oxton 70*, Isobel Kirby 32, Leah Cutler 3-19)

Dorset Girls Under-18s 85 (31.1 ovs; Isabelle Riley 3-25)

Oxfordshire won by 111 runs

Oxfordshire Girls Under-18s recorded a 111-run win over their Dorset counterparts at a sun-soaked Charlbury Cricket Club on Wednesday afternoon. Batting first, Oxfordshire looked to be in some trouble at 44 for 3 when Abigale Norgrove (28) was caught at square-leg in the 9th over. A 50-run partnership between Isobel Kirby (32) and Isabelle Riley (15) steadied the ship, before both departed in successive overs. This brought Lottie Oxton to the crease, and she immediately took full toll of a wilting attack, first adding 74 runs for the 6th wicket in partnership with Victoria Harris (21), before blasting her way past her own half-century from just 34 balls faced, and finishing undefeated on 70 from 56 deliveries.

Chasing 197 for victory, Dorset lost Freya Cutler to Kirby in the first over. Mollie Joyce and Leah Cutler set about rebuilding the innings, before lavish swing bowling from Riley accounted for Joyce in the 11th over, and Leah Cutler was run out by excellent work from Harris at mid-wicket in the next. The Dorset middle-order found runs hard to come by, as Riley (3-25), Chloe Westbury (2-8) and Oxton (2-10) picked up wickets at regular intervals. The visitors’ innings was brought to a premature end when Emma Trowbridge, on debut, span her first delivery past the bat of Ceri Harris, as Oxfordshire ran out winners by 111 runs.

After three matches, Oxfordshire now head Group 7 of the ECB Girls Under-18 One-Day Competition, two points clear of Berkshire who have a game in hand.

Youth Competitions Roundup 23rd July

23/07/2021 by Nick Pinhol

Week 13 results round-up from PlayCricket together with links to the league tables:

U11 League

– Tiddington beat Thame Town by 5 wickets with Tommy Elliott 21no; Will Kirkman 17no and 2 wickets each for Nathan Peacock and Alex Hitchings. Daniel Tervet 25ret and superb bowlings figures for 4 for 14 from his 4 overs for Alexander Fuller for Thame

Congratulations to:

– Chipping Norton & District U11s winning Pool 1 with only 1 loss during the season

– Goring on Thames U11s winning Pool 5 and going unbeaten all season, and

– Abingdon Vale U11s winning Pool 6 and going unbeaten all season

A spotlight article on the group winners will follow in the next couple of weeks.

Links below for each Pool Table:

Pool 1 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Pool 2 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Pool 3 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Pool 4 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Pool 5 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Pool 6 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

U11 Super 8 Hardball

Congratulations to:

– Kingston Bagpuize U11 Pairs winning a very close Pool 4 from Sunningwell CC on Net Run Rate

A spotlight article on the group winners will follow in the next couple of weeks.

Links below for each Pool Table:

Pool 1 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Pool 2 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Pool 3 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Pool 4 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Pool 5 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

U11 Super 8 Softball

Congratulations to:

– Eynsham CC winning Pool 1 with 7 straight wins

A spotlight article on the group winners will follow in the next couple of weeks.

Links below for each Pool Table:

Pool 1 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Pool 2 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

U13 League

– Abingdon Vale beat Steventon by 6 wickets with Karthik Ramsundhar 30ret; Benji Dominic 26 and 2 wickets each for Lewis Brock, Lakshay Prabhu and Bertie Smith. Archie Tyrell 30ret and Charlie Binning 27 for Steventon

U13 League Semi-Finals:

– Kidmore End beat Wolvercote by 10 runs

– Challow & Childrey beat Cumnor by 11 runs

U13 League Final:

– Kidmore End beat Challow & Childrey where scores level, but on loss of fewer wickets

U13 Gauntlet Goblet

Congratulations to:

– Banbury CC winning a very close Pool 1 from Oxford Kestrels CC to qualify for the Semi-Finals

– Kingston Bagpuize CC winning a very close Pool 3 from Purley on Thames CC on Net Run Rate to qualify for the Semi-Finals

Links below for each Pool Table:

Pool 1 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Pool 2 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Pool 3 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Pool 4 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

U19 League

– Hook Norton beat Shipton Under Wychwood by 1 wicket with Will Hutchinson 25no and 2 for 22; Ollie Simpkins 16 and Joe Coggins 1 for 21. Ben Gibbons 40; Abi Norgrove 30; Greg Woods 3 for 23 and Dee Jarvis 1 for 20 for Shipton

– Minster Lovell beat Horley by 25 runs

– West Oxfordshire Warriors conceded to Banbury

– Horspath beat Oxford by 39 runs with Alfie Turner 43; Tejas Anand 30; Luke Heritage 2 for 12 and Josh Richardson 2 for 23. Ali Raza taking 4 for 28 for Oxford

Links below for each Pool Table:

Pool 1 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Pool 2 – Oxfordshire Cricket Club Competitions (play-cricket.com)

Moreton GU15 v Warborough BU13 Report

23/07/2021 by Nick Pinhol

Steventon Girls Under-15s 49 (14.4 ovs; Alex Knight 3-4, Tegan Allum 3-6)

Moreton Girls Under-15s 127-2 (18 ovs; Bethan Lewis 25*, Lucy Johnson 20*)

Moreton won by 6 wickets (with 8.5 overs remaining)

Warborough & Shillingford Boys Under-13s 63-9 (100 balls; Fabian McElwaine-Johnn 11, Phoebe Oldfield 2-2)

Moreton Girls Under-15s 66-7 (74 balls; Conor Rogan 16*, Niamh Rogan 15, Louis Bolton 3-5)

Moreton won by 3 wickets (with 26 balls remaining)

Moreton opened their annual Cricket & Beer Festival on Thursday evening with an inaugural Hundred match between Moreton Girls Under-15s and Warborough & Shillingford Boys Under-13s.

Once the finer points of the law-changes had been explained to the two sides, and with scoreboard tweaked and software updated to support the Hundred format, Moreton took to the field and stepped into the unknown. The home side got off to the best possible start when excellent work by Phoebe Oldfield at square-leg resulted in Logan Rainbow being run out at the non-striker’s end from the very first ball of the match. The Warborough innings struggled to ignite as Moreton continued to bowl and field with energy and enthusiasm. Oldfield maintained her fantastic start to the evening by delivering Moreton’s first wicket-maiden in this format, on her way to returning figures of 2 for 2 from 15 balls; and six other bowlers chipped in with a wicket a piece as the visitors stumbled to 63 for 9 from their 100 allotted balls.

Moreton also lost a wicket to the first ball of their innings, as Lucy Johnson was adjudged leg-before wicket to Louis Bolton (3 for 5). Bethan Lewis produced a couple of lusty blows, before she was left short of her crease by Wilf Quinn’s direct hit with one stump to aim at; and, when Quinn followed up this feat three balls later by catching Oldfield off the bowling of Aiden Eltham, Moreton had lost half their side and were still 36 runs short of victory. Batting with immense maturity and much courage, Niamh Rogan – by far the youngest member of the Moreton Girls squad – first absorbed the pressure of the batting collapse, before then unfurling a range of classical drives and clips to rest back the initiative and leave Moreton on the brink of victory. It was left to older brother Conor (answering a last-minute call to arms) to see Moreton over the line with 26 balls remaining.

The full scorecard from last evening – in Hundred style – can be found here:

https://mscorer.net/scorecard.php?fixture=1351

U19 Finals Day for the 2020 HoneyBee

23/07/2021 by Nick Pinhol

This Sunday sees the delayed U19 2020 Finals Day taking place at Horspath CC.

The day will now see 2 matches with a Semi-Final at 10am featuring Hook Norton CC against the hosts, Horspath CC.

Unfortunately, Banbury CC have had to reluctantly withdraw from their Semi-Final given unavailability of players; resulting in Aston Rowant CC progressing to the Final awaiting winners of the Semi-Final.

The Final will take place at 1.30pm with presentations around 4pm.

All players that were eligible during the 2020 season remain eligible to participate in this Finals Day.

Good luck to all involved!

Kidmore End are U13 League Champions

23/07/2021 by Nick Pinhol

In complete contrast to recent Youth Final Days the weather for the conclusion of the U13 League season was a complete scorcher at Didcot CC.

Following the Quarter Finals results:

– Cumnor beat Banbury by 5 wickets

– Challow & Childrey beat Shipton Under Wychwood by 8 wickets

– Kidmore End beat Tiddington by 15 runs

– Wolvercote beat Oxford Downs by 72 runs

Semi-Final 1 saw a clash between Challow & Childrey who were unbeaten in 10 pool matches against Cumnor. Challow batted first setting a formidable target of 151 for 4 off their 20 overs with George Beard 32ret and Joe Westmoreland 18 putting on 63 for the first wicket and Ollie Beard 31ret. The fielding highlight being two run outs by Julius Ford. Cumnor batted well in response with contributions from Julius Ford, Ned Holt, Harry Davies, Patrick Bowden and Jack Scott, however continued to lose wickets at regular intervals. Despite an excellent unbeaten quickfire 25 run 10th wicket partnership by Zachary Dudhill and Archie Treitline Cumnor fell 11 runs short. Wickets were shared equally between Challow’s bowlers with 2 each for Iestyn Atkins, George and Ollie Beard.

Semi-Final 2 saw Kidmore End return for their second U13 Finals Day of the season, this time facing Wolvercote who were comprehensive group winners which included both Horspath and Oxford. Kidmore won the toss and batted first setting a competitive target of 118 for 5 off their 20 overs. In reply, Wolvercote set off chasing their target a little slowly, however, in the latter overs picked up the pace with some excellent running between the wickets to set up a close finish falling only 10 runs short for the loss of 7 wickets.

For this season only, we were unable to host a 3rd/4th Place Playoff given Didcot’s main pitch was being used in the afternoon for a National Vitality U15 T20 Cup 2nd Round fixture hosting Great Brickhill CC, the Bucks Champions. Secretly, given the temperature and not much shade there was at least one positive in the Semi-Final defeats!

The Final saw Challow & Childrey face Kidmore End who have both had an excellent U13 season. Challow & Childrey won the toss and elected to bat. This was an entirely different game to their Semi-Final where Challow whilst scoring freely at 6 runs an over continued to lose wickets at frequent intervals with only George Beard standing firm who eventually went on to make 41no. The innings closed when Challow were all out for 84 after 16 overs. Excellent bowling and fielding by Kidmore with the pick of the bowlers being Parthiv A with 4 for 23. Remaining wickets were shared 1 each for Aryan Vynatheya, Jamie Fenwicke-Clennell, Joshua Finch and Archie Nassau-Lake – all with excellent economy figures.

In reply, the Kidmore openers put on 24 for the first wicket and seemed to be going along nicely with Dananjay A 17 until the loss of 3 quick wickets left the game in the balance with Kidmore at 27-3. Joshua Finch 17 and Archie Nassau-Lake 12no went about a rebuild until 53-4. Then wickets began to fall at regular intervals and the game toing and froing, parents and coaches biting fingernails with Kidmore at 79-9. Two superb run-outs by Luke Flemming, a catch, stumping and run-out for Joe Westmoreland and excellent all round bowling by the team with Luke Glazer being the pick with 2 for 11 off his 4 overs. The game went down to the final ball with the Kidmore batters keeping their nerve; Archie Nassau-Lake and Aryan Vynatheya both running a single to bring the scores level and Kidmore winning by virtue of least wickets lost – 9 as opposed to all out!

This game was a brilliant advert for a low scoring game and an absolute credit to the players, coaches and all volunteers involved.

Paul Short from Oxfordshire Cricket then thanked the teams, coaches, officials and volunteers whilst also recognising the high level of skills on display, the high standards of spirit of cricket being maintained and the excitement served up in the Final. The day was completed by Paul presenting the winning captain, Joshua Finch with the U13 League Trophy.

Our thanks go to the umpires; John Finch, Nick Wilks, Peter Sharp and Dick Haddock in challenging conditions and the scorers from all teams. Additionally, a special thanks to David Hall, Paul Costello, Guy & Jacob Townsend and all volunteers at Didcot CC ensuring a great day was had by all.

Hook Norton U19s Win Thriller

23/07/2021 by Nick Pinhol

Hook Norton win thriller in last over

An exciting game on a gloriously sunny evening went down to the final over. Shipton batted first and got off to a flying start with Abi Norgrove and Ben Gibbons putting on 61 for the first wicket. After Gibbons was bowled by Joe Coggins, Dee Jarvis came in and continued the scoring pace until the second wicket fell for 97 in the 14th over. The scoring pace dropped as wickets continued to fall, with Shipton finishing on 133-6 (Ben Gibbons top scored with 40). Hook Norton’s reply got off to a difficult start, stumbling to 24-3 in the 4th over, but steady batting kept them in the hunt with a recovery until the fifth wicket fell at 62. Hook Norton were keeping up with the required run rate, but the wickets kept falling and with the score at 94-8 after 14 overs Shipton were looking favourites. A ninth wicket partnership of 36 between Will Hutchinson and Joe Coggins was ended by a run out with the score at 130 in the 19th over. Last Hook Norton batter Pickle Harris came out and blocked the last three balls of the over, leaving Hutchinson on strike at the start of the final over, and off the first ball he managed to strike the four required to win the game for Hook Norton. Man of the match was Will Hutchinson with bowling figures of 4-0-22-2 and 25 not out with the bat.

U13 and U15 National Club Competitions Update

23/07/2021 by Nick Pinhol

The past couple of weeks has seen both our U13 County Champions, Tiddington CC and U15 Champions, Didcot CC participate in the Vitality Club T20 National Competition Second Rounds.

Unfortunately neither of the results went our way, however, our teams pushed two very good teams hard. Overall, a great learning experience for all the players involved which I’m sure will stand them in good stead in the future.

In the ECB U15 Vitality Club T20, London & East Round 2 Didcot CC were drawn against Great Brickhill CC, the Buckinghamshire county champions. On a scorching date at Didcot won the toss and elected to bat. The highlights from Didcot’s innings were an excellent 53ret off 36 balls, including 10 fours for Jacob Townsend and Luke Hayes with 37 from 36 balls. The pick of Brickhill’s bowling was Danny Chapman taking 3 for 12 off his 4 overs. Didcot reached 119 for 6 off their 20 overs.

In reply, Brickhill had 2 good early partnerships to reach 92-2 with Sai Boorghu 50ret and Raif Rahman 28. Further contributions from Aadi Sharma 19 and Danny Chapman 18no saw Brickhill get over the line in the 14th over for the loss of 2 wickets. 1 wicket each for Freddie Deans and Iestyn Keymer; Luke Hayes bowling 3 excellent overs for only 15 runs.

In the ECB U13 Vitality Club T20, London & East Round 2 Tiddington CC were drawn against Peppard Stoke Row CC, the Berkshire county champions. A young under-strength Tiddington side lost the toss and were put in to bat. Excellent bowling from Peppard restricted Tiddington to 61 all out in the final over. The pick of Peppard’s bowlers were Rudi Derbyshire 2-9; James Bee 2-5 and James Mennie 2-5.

In reply, Peppard chased down the total in the 11th over for the loss of 1 wicket with Ethan Day 23no. Despite this, some excellent bowling figures from Tiddington with Sam Edwards 4 overs for 8 runs and Ciaran Lewis 1 for 20 from his 3 overs.

Wishing Great Brickhill CC and Peppard Stoke Row CC good luck in their Regional Semi-Finals at the end of the month.

County Men 2nd XI Team News v Berkshire 2nds

21/07/2021 by Nick Pinhol

Oxfordshire Cricket is pleased to announce the 11 man county men 2nd XI squad selected to play against Berkshire 2nd XI on Thursday 22nd of July.

The match will be played at Tiddington CC (OX9 2NA)

The 11 man squad is as follows:

Olly Clarke *
Prav Chahal
Ethan Davie
Luke Maslen
Elliot Mathews
Josh Richardson
Hayden Rossouw
Alistair Short +
Will Sutcliffe
George Tait
Matt Warner

County Men v Sussex Roundup and Highlights

20/07/2021 by Nick Pinhol

Tom Haines’ century set up a 62-run victory for Sussex Sharks in their National County Friendly against Oxfordshire at The 1st Central County Ground. The match which was due to be played in Oxfordshire, was played at Hove due to COVID-19. It is the first match against a first class county for Oxfordshire as part of the NCCA showcase fixtures.

Captaining a young Sussex side, Haines made 105 from 122 balls as Sussex posted 285 for 9 in their 50 overs after winning the toss. After the loss of openers Tom Clark and Harrison Ward cheaply, Haines added 115 for the third wicket with Australian international Travis Head, who made a run-a-ball 55.

Jofra Archer, continuing to build fitness as he returns from elbow surgery earlier in the summer, chipped in with 15 from 11 balls, while Ollie Carter (22 from 15 balls) and Ali Orr (30 from 18 balls) also played cameos.

Off-spinner Max Mannering was the pick of the Oxfordshire bowlers, picking up the wickets of Clark and Archer during ten overs that cost just 29 runs.

Archer bowled six lively overs with the new ball and forced Oxfordshire opener Tom Cosford to retire hurt in the seventh over after hitting him on the helmet twice.

England’s Jofra Archer back in action for Sussex at Hove against Oxfordshire in the 50 over game

Henry Crocombe took the first wicket with the score on 38, before Harry Smith and Tom Condon added 47.

Smith had made 42 from 67 balls when he was bowled by 17-year-old James Coles, who signed his professional with Sussex earlier in the year after coming through the Oxfordshire pathway, and Oxfordshire and Sussex Cricket Academy.

That left Oxon 85 for 2 and requiring 200 from just over 25 overs. The scoreboard pressure soon told and Head capitalised picking up three quick wickets with his off-spin on his way to figures of 3 for 23 from six overs.

With the required run-rate surging, the game was all but gone, but a belligerent 93 from 81 balls from Henry Rossouw lifted Oxfordshire to a respectable total.