by Nick Owens | Aug 16, 2016 | Announcements
Downs won the toss and elected to bowl Downs got off to a cracking start with Tom Costley getting a run out first ball of the innings with a direct hit from covers. However this didn’t slow Buckingham down as they were scoring at least one boundary an over not...
by Nick Owens | Aug 14, 2016 | Announcements
Abingdon Vales’ second ground had been turned into a caravan park for August, so our fixture was played at Warborough and Shillingford. The ground is set on a lovely village green, with no covers it always make for interesting battle between bat and ball. Abingdon...
by Nick Owens | Aug 14, 2016 | Announcements
No one was more shocked that the skipper Woods when he won the toss (the team still don’t believe he did) and elected to field first. With Banbury starting reasonably well against the ferocious pace of Spilsbury and the evergreen Steve Roberts landing it on a...
by Nick Owens | Aug 13, 2016 | Announcements
Another classic Downs thriller. It wouldn’t be a Saturday if we didn’t have a collapse somewhere and this was one of the highest magnitude. Without our leader (Waz), opening bowler (Harry) or our Senior Pro (Cricket Chris) the team was a much different look compared...
by Nick Owens | Aug 13, 2016 | Announcements, Uncategorized
The skipper lost the toss – again!. If anything can be predicted in this game, as sure as night follows day, the skipper will always lose the toss! We were put in to bat and a good all round batting performance saw us to 182 with a great debut 50 for Freddie...
