by Nick Owens | Jun 2, 2016 | Announcements
Sandford won the toss and elected to bowl. A marvellous partnership display of batting from Waz and Chris Sandbach seeing a 200 run partnership for the first wicket before Waz finally lost his wicket scoring 112 and a little while after Chris was also dismissed for...
by Nick Owens | Jun 2, 2016 | Announcements
We won the toss and chose to bat on the back of a good performance the previous week. We lost Coates after an opening stand of 62 but Woods and Bartlett rallied well both hitting excellent 50s. Some brilliant hitting from Alex Ling put the pressure on further as we...
by Nick Owens | Jun 2, 2016 | Announcements
Playing away at Didcot 3rds, Downs were put into bat and got off to a good start with Nick Angus and Harry Gillam sharing an opening partnership of 54 from 12 overs. Tom Ling was then the victim of another harsh LBW decision (not given by me this time!). A partnership...
by Nick Owens | May 23, 2016 | Announcements
On a perfect evening for a game of cricket, the U13 faced Challow & Childrey at Challow in the first round of this years Ron Maudsley Trophy. Oxford Downs lost the toss and were put in to bat first. Some fantastic tight bowling from the opposition with only 1 wide...
by Nick Owens | May 23, 2016 | Announcements
Having lost the toss (again!) Downs 3rds were put in to bat by Kingston Bagpuize 2nds. After losing an early wicket (Harry!), Alex Wildman and Nick Angus quickly took the score to 90 before Alex was out for an entertaining 60 from 37 balls. Another wicket fell quickly...
by Nick Owens | May 17, 2016 | Announcements
ODCC lost the toss and were put in to bat on a very dubious looking wicket. Caunce and Coates opened up and made after a watchful start set a good platform for us. Woods carried on the good start but unfortunately we lost a few regular wickets in the middle due to...