Oxfordshire Cricket is pleased to announce the 12 man county men squad selected to play against Buckinghamshire on Sunday 23rd of May in a 50 over match as part of the Nurton-York Trophy. The match against Buckinghamshire is part of the Nurton-York Cup, which was formed last year and is named in recognition of former players of both counties.

Here is the squad selected to play Buckinghamshire on Sunday at High Wycombe (HP11 1DE)

Jonny Cater (capt/wk)
Joe Butcher
Olly Clarke
Tom Cosford
Tom Haynes
Freddie Smith
Harry Smith
Robbie Shurmer
Oliver Southon
George Tait
Joe Thomas
Harrison Ward

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Just short of three weeks of the Youth Competition season has now been completed. This has been met with loads of enthusiasm and engagement following the various challenges of the past year, not to mention plenty of competitive cricket played in good spirit with great performances, both team and individual. Having attended a few of the matches, it is great to see the enjoyment, learning of new skills and team bonding despite the wind, rain and freezing temperatures!

All the competitions have now commenced with the exception of the U19s which start in July; as we hope will the inaugural longer format summer competition(s) currently being planned. Unfortunately though, the weather has continued to cause disruption to the fixtures this week.

Thank you to all the coaches, managers, parents and volunteers for supporting the rescheduling of games where the weather has intervened to ensure the players get the maximum playing opportunities.

A summary of the results registered on PlayCricket are below. As the league moves into Week 4, we will start to publish the league tables from next week.

U11 League
– Aston Rowant beat Thame Town by 40 runs with Austin King retiring on 25 and George Jacot De Boinod with excellent figures of 2-1-7-4
– Horspath beat Oxford by 15 runs with Fredrik Ekelund retiring on 25 and 3 wickets apiece for Joe Garrow and Rabiya Dogar
– Goring on Thames beat Warborough & Shillingford by 62 runs with Toby Ryder and Archie Butlin both retiring and 2 wickets each for Patrick Dineen and Rory Bennett
– Henley beat Peppard Stoke Row by 4 wickets with Alexander Kind scoring 26 for Peppard

U11 Super 8 Hardball
– Challow & Childrey beat Moreton by 4 runs with net scores for Barnaby Cale of 36 and Alex Vinnicombe of 23 for Challow & Moreton respectively
– Kingston Bagpuize beat Oxford Blue by 48 runs with Tom Ricks 9; Theo Antoniou 2-2 for Kingston and L Dunbar 1-13; A Bove 1-13; G Fairburn 11 for Oxford
– Sunningwell beat Abingdon Vale by 29 runs
– Tiddington beat Oxford Yellow by 16 runs with Finn Lawrence 2-7 and George Wallace 2-9

U11 Super 8 Softball
– Eynsham beat Banbury by 6 runs
– Witney Mills beat Freeland by 65 runs
– Stanton Harcourt beat Faringdon & District by 25 runs

U13 League – unfortunately a wash-out week

U13 Ron Maudsley Cup
– Kidmore End beat Henley by 9 wickets
– Aston Rowant beat Bicester & North Oxford by 6 wickets with T Wyatt retiring on 30 for BNOCC
– Tiddington beat Didcot by 38 runs with Wilf Edwards and Alfie Wilson both retiring on 33 and 30 respectively and 2 wickets apiece for Wilf Edwards and Oscar McCallum

The updated draw now looks like:
East & West Hendred or Horspath v Tiddington
Aston Rowant v Warborough & Shillingford or Witney Mills
Minster Lovell or Abingdon Vale v Kidmore End
Banbury or Oxford Downs v Shipton Under Wychwood or Oxford

U13 Gauntlet Goblet – unfortunately a wash-out week

U15 League
– Banbury beat Horley by 15 runs with Tom Finlay 53no
– Great & Little Tew beat Chipping Norton by 7 wickets with J Harvey scoring 44 for Chipping Norton and great bowling figures for the Tew pair of G Dicks 3-7 and S Canham 3-11
– Cropredy beat Kidlington by 9 wickets
– Abingdon Vale beat Oxford by 3 wickets with Oscar Talbott and Fletcher Jewell 46no and 30no rescuing Abingdon from 63 for 7 after J Conway took 4 early wickets for 14
– East & West Hendred beat Cumnor by 5 runs
– Challow & Childrey beat Kingston Bagpuize by 9 wickets with George Beard retiring on 50
– Aston Rowant tied with Horspath with half centuries from Oliver Veal and Conor Rogan for Aston and Rayaan Dogar and Christopher Hofen for Horspath
– Tiddington beat Henley by 106 runs with Ewan Gatt and Jake MacKay both retired half centuries and Louis Stanfield taking 3 wickets in 1 over for no runs
– Warborough & Shillingford beat Peppard Stoke Row by 8 wickets with Todd Stanmore scoring 46no

Update 15th May – 8PM

The 2nd XI match due to take place on Sunday 16th of May at Abingdon CC has been cancelled.

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Oxfordshire Cricket is pleased to announce the Oxfordshire 2nd X1 squad selected to play against Oxford University on Sunday 16th of May in a 50 over match. Due to ECB guidelines no spectators are allowed.

Here is the squad to play Oxford University on Sunday

Joe Butcher
Prav Chahal
Oliver Ebsworth-Burland
Harvey Jupp
Will Laird+
Zach Lion-Cachet
Elliot Mathews
Ben Smith
Will Sutcliffe
George Tait
Matt Warner

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With the positive news from the UK Government confirming England progressing to Step 3 from Monday 17th May, the ECB have updated their guidance to reflect what these changes mean for organised outdoor cricket. Whilst these changes come into effect from Monday 17th May, it is important to remember that clubs should be encouraged to move at their own pace and only move to the next steps if and when they feel ready to do so.

What has changed at Step 3?

On the Field (the organised activity itself)

The activities permissible through organised outdoor cricket activity remain the same and therefore existing guidance should be followed.

Off the Field

Changing Rooms: Changing rooms can open where it is safe to do so but social distancing and other mitigation measures must be observed. Note that no club is obliged to provide use of changing facilities for all participants and clubs and venues should only use changing rooms when they are ready to do so safely. It will require time to complete the necessary preparations and venues should only do this at their pace.

Hospitality: Clubhouses and facilities that serve food and drink can open. At Step 3, both indoor and outdoor hospitality will be permitted. The provision of food and beverage should be as per government guidance on hospitality settings.
You will be able to serve customers in groups of up to 6 or 2 households indoors, or in groups of up to 30 outdoors.
If your venue serves alcohol, table service will be required. Even if no alcohol is ordered, this means customers must order, be served and eat/drink while seated.
If your venue does not serve alcohol, customers can order and collect food and drink from a counter. But they must consume food and drink while seated at a table.

Teas: Teas can now be served at clubs where this can be done safely and in compliance with government guidance on hospitality settings. Note that no club should be obliged to serve teas at this step and clubs should only serve teas when they are ready to do so safely. It will require time to complete the necessary preparations and venues should only do this at their pace.

Spectators: Spectators are permitted at both public and private venues. Spectators must observe social distancing and legal gathering size limits (groups of up to 30 outdoors). Outdoors, multiple groups of 30 (with no interaction among different groups) are permitted, with Government limits allowing up to 1,000.

Travel: You can leave your home to exercise and take part in informal and organised cricket. Car sharing is permitted at Step 3 for sport in accordance with the government guidance for safer travel.

The complete guidance can be found at www.ecb.co.uk/covid-19 and includes the links to both government hospitality guidance and travel guidance.

Oxfordshire Cricket is pleased to announce the 12 women squad selected to play against Wiltshire on Sunday 16th of May in two t20 matches. Due to Government and ECB guidelines NO SPECTATORS are allowed to attend the match.

Here is the 12-women squad to play Wiltshire on Sunday

Sam Bennett (c)
Emilia Bartram
Abi Currie (w/k)
Georgia Haworth
Ellie Ingram
Sana Kassey
Izzy Kirby
Abi Norgrove
Lottie Oxton
Amelie Trivedi
Chloe Westbury
Carla Wood

Amelie Trivedi will make her senior team debut

Unfortunately, the weather got the better of some of the scheduled fixtures for the second week of the junior club season with the U15s being most affected, however, plenty of matches were played including the remaining Round 1 fixtures in the U13 Ron Maudsley Cup.

A summary of the results registered on PlayCricket below:

U11 League
– Banbury beat Horley by 40 runs with C Foster and T Brock both retiring on 26 & 25 respectively and Z Ahmed & I Finlay grabbing 2 wickets apiece
– Chalbury beat Witney Mills in a tightly contested game by 3 runs with George Eaton 32no and Samuel Clews 2 wickets
– Cumnor beat Wolvercote by 37 runs
– Horspath beat Bicester & North Oxford by 7 wickets. Gus Floyd 25 for Bicester. Fredrik Ekelund 23 and 3 for 2, Lewis Cavers-Bull 2 for 10, Max Whiting 1 for 3, Joe Garrow 1 for 18 and Pavlos Pavlides 24 retired for Horspath.
– Goring on Thames beat Henley by 6 wickets with Jackson Galbraith retiring on 27
– Peppard Stoke Row beat Warborough & Shillingford by 47 runs with Albie Tomlinson retiring on 24 and Dominic Ellis 3 for 5
– Didcot beat Challow & Childrey by 5 runs. George Mercer scored 20 and Thomas Ward 2 for 3 for Didcot. Alfie Roche 25, Tom Harborrow and Thomas Orders 2 wickets each for Challow.
– Abingdon Vale beat Faringdon & District by 52 runs with Srivats Goyal and Riley Cunningham both retiring and Samarth Goyal with 19no and bowling figures of 2-2-0-2

U11 Super 8 Hardball
– Cropredy beat Chipping Norton
– Challow & Childrey beat East & West Hendred by 25 runs
– Freeland beat Bampton in the Bush by 28 runs. Bampton batted first and were pegged back by Freeland’s bowlers, with Ethan top scoring with a good 10. In reply, Freeland were also contained by the Bampton bowling but the final pair of Eddie and Harry scored 36, with Eddie finishing on 17no
– Kingston Bagpuize beat Abingdon Vale by 87 runs with Vihaan Chakraverty 1-0; Theo Antoniou 1-4; Tom Ricks 16 and Josh Antoniou 17 for Kingston, and Felix with 1-8 for Abingdon
– Sunningwell beat Oxford Blue by 12 runs

U11 Super 8 Softball
– Cholsey beat Faringdon & District
– Wootton & Boars Hill beat Stanton Harcourt by 26 runs

U13 League
– Oxford Downs B beat Freeland by 9 wickets with S Hunt 24no
– Challow & Childrey beat East & West Hendred by 44 runs with Murray Gray 33, William Walters 27 and Oliver Beard & Tom Saunders 3 wickets each
– Abingdon Vale beat Steventon by 75 runs with Karthik Ramsundhar 53* for Abingdon and Rowan Powell with figures of 4-1-14-3 for Steventon
– Horspath beat Bicester & North Oxford by 86 runs with Ben Wise 25 and Rabiya Dogar 2 for 7
– Wolvercote beat Kidlington by 181 runs

U13 Ron Maudsley Cup
– Oxford Downs beat Purley on Thames by 28 runs
– Banbury beat Kidlington by 93 runs with Evan Armstrong, Will Rorich and Lucas Ansley all retiring and Archie Holmes 3 for 13
– Shipton Under Wychwood beat Sandford St Martin by 18 runs with Jack W & Arthur H both retiring

U13 Gauntlet Goblet
– Charlbury beat Freeland by 71 runs with Sandy Motsley scoring 21
– Purley on Thames beat Abingdon Vale by 19 runs
– Kingston Bagpuize beat Challow & Childrey by 5 runs. For Kingston, Theo Antoniou 1-7; Alice Kollakowski 1-8; Archie Ricks 11*; Clement Kelly 13* and Challow William Chester 12*; Luke Glazer 22; Robert Gardiner 13*; Toby Price 1-8 off 3; Hamish Ogilvy 1-7 off 3
– Sunningwell beat Oxford by 12 runs with Rhys Whinfrey scoring 22 and Henry Oxford 3 for 12

Oxfordshire Cricket is pleased to announce the 12 man squad selected to play against Berkshire on Sunday 9th of May in a 50 over match. Hospitality will be available at Challow and Childrey CC for the match.

Here is the 12-man squad to play Berkshire on Sunday

Jonny Cater (Capt./WK)
Joe Butcher
Olly Clarke
Tom Cosford
Tom Haynes
Jordan Garrett
Max Mannering
Harry Smith
Olliver Southon
George Tait
Joe Thomas
Harrison Ward

Oliver Southon makes his debut for Oxfordshire. He is a seamer at Oxford Brookes University and has signed for Oxford CC. He has played 2nd XI cricket for both Hampshire and Kent

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