2009

Front Row left to right: Damian Shirazi, Chris Smith, Jimmy Phillips, Ian Hawtin, Craig Haupt, Ed Phillips, Ian ‘blue steel’ Tew. Back Row left to right: Martin Phillips (President) Ashley Blanchard, Luke Ryan, Shahbaz Ali, Ant Bullick, Jamil Faruq, Richard West, Rod ‘Nobby’ Clarke (scorer). Missing from photo: Simon Hole, Paul Hill and Andrew Sabin

Banbury’s Under 12 Girls saved their best performance of the year until last to emphatically beat Oxford Downs in the Play-off final of the County’s 1st ever Girls Under 12’s league at Charlbury tonight. Put in to bat first (batting in pairs for 4 overs per pair) things started off as well as they could have with

Banbury Cricket Club’s disability cricket programme proved a fantastic success throughout schools across Oxfordshire. The initiative came from Banbury’s Disability Officer, Luke Ryan, who used the idea as part of his university project. The scheme signalled the first regular disability cricket coaching in the county with funding provided by the Lottery distributor ‘Awards for All’.

The heroics displayed by Kiwi all-rounder Ant Bullick (5-76 & 67*) at High Wycombe were not rewarded with 25 points for Banbury after under pressure umpires inexplicably led players from the field with Banbury just 22 runs from victory and play 4 overs from the close. The reason given was ‘bad light’, it was however

Oxfordshire staged two age groups for the girls this year (Under 12’s & Under 15’s) as well as the usual Lady Taverners one-day Tournaments for Under 13’s & Under 15’s. Our progress to date has been as follows: Under 12’s – Won our league. 4 matches scheduled. Won 2 (against Bampton & Hook Norton) and 2

Winners of June and July’s 100 club were drawn last night by President Martin Phillips under the supervision of the general committee, they are as follows: June£50 – R Swinford£50 – M Robinson£25 – A Sabin£25 – D Bruce July£50 – D Bruce£50 – P Montenario£25 – N Clark£25 – R Lambden It is still

The whole team put in a fantastic effort to reach and narrowly lose the final ( by 7 runs). Due to illness we lost two players but everyone who played contributed in some way to an effort that they should be proud of, although they were very disappointed not to have won the county title. Semi Final

Having lost the toss once again OBN took the negative option of putting Banbury into bat, and play for a draw. After a slow start, the opening pair found sweepers on the off side boundry in just the 4th over. A Sabin was first out with the score on 10in the 5th over. Steve Beck(24) &

  Banbury completed the first round of fixtures by beating Oxford & Bletchingdon by 5 wickets. On a very green wicket Banbury looked to make early in roads into the Oxford & Bletchingdon top order.  Banbury made the break through with the score on 13, Woodworth taking the wicket of Allen, caught at mid on

Banbury’s Women have played their 1st ever matches: Great Horwood Ladies 6-a-side (Sunday 21st June) Away to Middleton Cheney (Sunday 5th July) Great Horwood This event started off badly with a sickness drop-out on the morning & having to leave early to avoid the British Grand Prix traffic. However, when we got there we were joined by