Oxfordshire Cricket is pleased to announce the 12 man county men squad selected to play against Bedfordshire on Sunday 4th of July in an NCCA 50 over match at Aston Rowant CC.

Here is the squad selected to play Bedfordshire on Sunday at Aston Rowant CC (OX39 4ST)

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It’s Women’s Big Cricket Month!

During June, we will be celebrating and shining a light on women’s cricket in Oxfordshire.

With that in mind, we hear from Southern Vipers Cricketers Paige Scholfield and Tara Norris. Have a listen. 

It’s Women’s Big Cricket Month!

During June, we will be celebrating and shining a light on women’s cricket in Oxfordshire.

With that in mind, we hear from Southern Vipers Cricketer Ella Chandler. Have a listen. 

Oxfordshire Cricket is delighted to invite you to attend our second members forum of the year, which will take place on Wednesday 21st of July from 5.45-6.30PM. 

The forum will be a webinar delivered by a guest speaker. The webinar titled ‘All to Play For: What The Hundred tells us about the future of cricket’? will be delivered by Matt Rogan, Co founder of Two Circles, and Author of All to Play For which is being published by Penguin in July. The webinar will coincide with the launch of the Hundred which will see the Oval Invincibles take on the Manchester Originals from 6.30pm. The event finishes at 6.30 just in time for the opening ball of the Hundred. 

About Matt

Matt Rogan is a well-known and respected sports business leader and the co-founder of Two Circles, the fastest growing sports agency in the UK. Over the last decade Two Circles have worked with five of the six biggest sports events in the world, as well as British household names including the Premier League and several Premier League clubs, the England and Wales Cricket Board, Wimbledon Tennis, England Rugby and a host of others. He is also a non-executive director of the English Institute of Sport, delivering technology and sport science to Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic teams. 

Matt writes, teaches and also presents a podcast series for sports industry-leading media company SportsPro as well as several international Business Schools. He has been published by Harvard Business Review, and is an accomplished speaker and media commentator, featuring on BBC News, BBC Sport, MTV and CNN among many more. Matt’s previous book, written with his father Martin Rogan, Britain & The Olympic Games- Past, Present, Legacy was published by Matador in 2010. Matt is a cricket enthusiast and is also an Oxfordshire Cricket member, and pathway parent who has two children within our pathway. 

You can find out more about Matt by visiting his website by clicking here

How Can You Register for the Webinar? 

You can register for the webinar by clicking here, please note that the webinar is capped at 100 people so please book your spot asap.  

A BRILLIANT unbeaten century from Patrick Foster couldn’t save Horspath from a four-wicket defeat at Ynystawe in their rearranged Voneus Village Cup fifth-round tie. Having elected to bat, the Oxfordshire champions were in deep trouble at 50-5. But Foster, with the excellent support of opener Jimmy Phillips (56), took the Welsh side’s attack apart, making a stunning 113 not out off just 75 balls. The pair shared a thrilling sixth-wicket stand of 124 to set Horspath on the way to 225-7 off their 40 overs. However, it wasn’t enough as Carl Roberts hammered a superb unbeaten 99 from 100 deliveries to steer Ynystawe home at 228-6 with nine balls to spare.

Sulaiman Hussain made 25 to get Horspath off to a good start, but when he was run out with Rhys Palmer touching Phillips’s straight drive on to the stumps it triggered a top-order collapse. Five wickets went down for 20 runs before Foster and Phillips set about repairing the damage.

Taking advantage of a short boundary on one side, Foster hit 11 fours and six sixes, while Phillips’s 91-ball knock included three boundaries and two maximums. Lee Hicks took 3-43 for the Glamorgan & Gwent champions. Roberts and Morgan Hodges then put on 114 for Ynystawe’s second wicket as the home side reached 155-1. But when Hodges holed out for 57 off Foster, and three more wickets fell, Horspath sensed a chance with the home side 184-5. Controversy flared when Will Eason, in attempting to catch Luke Garthwaite’s off drive on the boundary returned the ball infield as he went backwards, but the umpire adjudged it was a six. After Garthwaite hit the next ball for four there was a disturbance on the sidelines, and a delay followed. But Roberts kept his cool to see Ynystawe home, sealing victory in style with a six over mid-wicket – his fourth maximum to go with ten boundaries.

Special thanks to Russell Smith for the report

Sussex Academy Director, Richard Halsall, chats with Oxfordshire Head Coach, Rupert Evans

Oxfordshire Cricket’s Head Coach Rupert Evans has praised the player development partnership between the National County and Sussex Cricket that saw James Coles become the first product of the link-up to sign a professional contract with Sussex earlier this year. 

“Our formal relationship has worked absolutely fantastically well because not only do Oxfordshire get opportunities with Sussex we get fantastic support with our coaching,” Evans, who made more than 150 appearances for Oxfordshire between 1983 and 1998, explained.

“We work in partnership to run similar programmes to the ones that Sussex do. 

“The Emerging Players Programme is an Oxfordshire-Sussex one and Alan Duncan, who is a Level Four coach, is funded by Sussex to head up our EPP programme alongside Matt Barnes our Performance Manager. 

“Our own coaches also work on that programme but we also have support from Richard Halsall, Sussex’s Academy Director, who regularly attends our sessions,  and they also send specialist coaches like James Kirtley to our sessions. 

“Anything that is going to help the programme to run better and help our players develop, then Sussex are heavily involved in it. 

“We work closely to ensure that there is a seamless pathway all the way up and it’s good when you see guys go on because it means that we are doing our job properly. 

“If they go on to play first-class cricket or for England Under-19s it’s good for Oxfordshire cricket and we are pleased to see them go on to bigger and better things.” 

On Coles, Evans said, “Last year James started off with a hundred against Bucks and then went on and made his debut for Sussex as a 16-year-old.”

“Against Berkshire a couple of weeks ago he took five for six in seven overs [for Oxfordshire]. He looked very calm. He’s a very level-headed lad and he seems to take everything in his stride. 

“It will be interesting to see how, if he does have a bit of a difficult time, he reacts but I’m pretty confident that he will cope with it.”

The joint Sussex/Oxfordshire Academy was created in 2013. It is based at Magdalen College School, Oxford and led by Partnership Support Coach, Alan Duncan, who works closely with Halsall in developing young cricketers from the region. 

Harrison Ward is another graduate of the programme who went on to be part of the Sussex Academy at The 1st Central County Ground. The former England Under-19 international is now playing second team cricket for Sussex. 

Oxfordshire Cricket is pleased to announce the 12 man county men squad selected to play against Buckinghamshire on Sunday 27th of June in an NCCA 50 over match at Gerrards Cross CC.

Here is the squad selected to play Buckinghamshire on Sunday at Gerrards Cross (SL9 7JZ)

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