This season pre season nets are being held at Radley College at the follow times / dates.
Sunday 11th April – 10-11 am (be up there around 9.45)
Sunday 18th April – 10-11 am (be up there around 9:45)
Outdoor nets will start around that sort of time on a Thursday evening at the club, I will confirm the date for these soon.
There will be a small charge to cover the hall rental, but this will only be a couple of quid…
Look forward to seeing you all there.
As you should have received an email about (if you haven’t let us know so we can update mailing list) there is a Pre Season Social planned for this Saturday evening at the club.
It’s a cheap excuse to go down there for a few games of pool, a couple of beers and a catch up. The more the merrier!
If you are coming along please let Steve B know via email.
Received this and wanted to share it with everyone, anyone interested in getting involved see the contact details at the bottom.
You will learn the unique ABSAT (Advanced Biomechanics Speed & Accuracy Training) methods founded by Ian Pont. On the workshop you will discover how to:
Bowl faster & straighter
Access power in the body
Break down and understand the bowling action
Learn what works for you and what doesn’t
Find the elusive ‘timing’ of the bowling action
.plus how to bowl yorkers, bouncers, swing, seam, and variations including the world’s best slower ball – The SLOBNot only can you learn these amazing techniques you will also get the chance to bowl against the MCI Speed Gun. So you can find out for yourself just how fast you really bowl!
Ian Pont is one of the most-respected technical fast bowling coaches in the world today, having worked with Darren Gough, Shoaib Akthar, Dale Steyn, Andre Nel, Andre Adams, as well as the next generation of up and coming county, district and academy bowlers
Venue: Abingdon School, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Wednesday, 7th April 1pm – 4pm
Cost £65Medium and fast bowlers welcome. Open to adults and juniors (age 11+). Not suitable for beginners
For more information, a booking form or a choice of other venues, go to www.maverickscricket.com, call 01787 479071 or e-mail info@maverickscricket.com
Book today to guarantee your place and learn the secrets of professional fast bowlers
The order has been placed for the new kit for the season, and the badge design has been finalised. I thought I would share the badge design with you, but the shirt design will remain a minor surprise for when they arrive. Hopefully, they will be with us in time for the first game of the season.
As a club, we are about to take the field in battle against one of the toughest oppositions out there… the local council and housing developers.
In a recent planning meeting it was announced that property developers would like to build houses on our lovely ground, and move us to a new location.
Now as a club, this is not something which we are entirely against, however there are some very important considerations to take into account. The most important of which is the new location itself, is it big enough? Is the ground flat? Is the soil right? Then the price must be considered, realistically we are talking about a cost of well over half a mil to move the ground. Remembering that the new ground will need: a new pavilion built; a wicket to be laid; nets to be laid; outfield to be prepared; equipment shed to be built; and then the cost of transporting all the current equipment to the new site. What affect will the new location have on the current members, both playing and as importantly non-playing?
There are currently so many questions, which we have not been given answers to. Until we get these answers we are not in a position to make a decision on what is the best move for the club now and going forward.
My personal opinion is that the ground should stay as it is, it has taken many years to build up a pitch which is second to non in the league for playing quality and the reputation it holds with other teams.
More information can be found on the Council’s website here: http://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/Planning/Planning_policy/DetailPage-6980.asp
I implore you all to have a look, and send your thoughts on the development to the council using this form over the next couple of days: http://www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/Images/Comment%20sheet%20WantageV5_tcm4-7075.doc
The fixtures for the Saturday league team are up, take a look on the OCA site here or on this site here.
As you can see we were indeed successfully promoted last year to division 6, giving us a new breed of team to play against, and a stab at some old opponents in Garsington.
First league game is the 1st May, however we are currently in negotiations for a friendly the week before this, on the Sunday. Will keep you all posted on this when we have more information.
12.00pm at the club please, or you will be fined..!! Remember its a 1.30 Start..!!
Special guest(s) this week, the return of the skinnier, hair cut, meaner, harding hitting, faster bowling… James”smasher”Mabbett. Oh.. and who can forgot one of the orginal Zimmers.. Nick”hit another 6″ Burton..!!
1)Duncan Wooloff
2)David Henson
3)Nick Burton
4)Ryan Martin
5)James Mabbett
6)Grant Summersbee
7)Steve Bramley
8)Chaz Boshell
9)Colin Mercer
10)Steve Yates
11)Toby Gallington
This week we are facing 6th, we had a very convincing win against them at home. They have however picked up a few results lately, but we have more than enough to do the job and get us up to Division 6. The batting has been very good over the last 4/5 matches, lets keep that going if we are required too. Likewise the bowling has been of a very good standard. This is it folks, one game away from getting up a league and part of the plan to make Wantage play a higher standard of cricket, where it belongs.
Whatever happens its been a good first year, and we can now build on this. BIG thanks to all the support aswell this year.. YEH MEXICANS.
And the Ground staff, a lot of effort goes into making our pitch such an enjoyable place to play cricket, thank you very much.
For the last time, thanks all, its gonna be a sunny saturday, for RYAN we have a nice strong team again..!!
Cheers all, CAPTAIN (last game) Duncan.
A mostly hungover team took on the President’s select XI last weekend and a friendly battle between two strong teams ensued. Having used underhand tactics the previous evening by stealing one of our ringers to play for them, the President’s XI opened the batting in a 35 over game. 28 overs later and with 158 runs on the board, we got our first wicket. It wasn’t that our bowling was bad, but there had been some dropped catches that went down to difficult chances. Pippy had delivered his signature dive but this time managed to drop the ball.
Steve Penney had scored 81 before PoD managed to bowl him and R. Austin retired on 68 having felt that he’d done enough. In the remaining overs, Ian Danne got 14 before being stumped by Rich Lonnon off of Mercer Major’s bowling and C. Martin got 14 before being bowled by Grant “Sack” Summersbee.
During the innings, Longdog was getting unreasonably upset with himself and the inability to get wickets. This was the source of some amusement to the other players on the pitch. Moobs had bowled extremely tightly which probably had the biggest impact on the game than anything else. Sack chucked the ball at Carlos winning him Champagne moment.
So, at the end of their innings The President’s had scored a reasonable 213 for the loss of 3 wickets. The track had proved itself as a reasonable strip to bat on and 213 seemed well within our grasp if we batted well.
| J. Mabbett | 7-4-0-6 |
| R. Martin | 3-0-0-19 |
| D. Henson | 6-0-0-38 |
| D. Wooloff | 7-1-0-46 |
| C. Mercer | 6-0-1-45 |
| G. Summersbee | 4-0-1-23 |
| A. Mercer | 2-0-1-15 |
After a nice tea with egg sandwiches and loads of cakes, kindly donated by the two captains, Raffles and Longdog started the battle to reach the target. Both battled well and put on 80 for the loss of the first wicket.
Everyone who got chance to bat did their bit and put on a reasonable score, keeping on top of the run rate, with the exception of Pippy who was having a rare bad game both with bat and ball.
| A. Mercer | 41 |
| D. Wooloff | 33 |
| M. Tugwell | 43 |
| R. Martin | 1 |
| S. Bramley | 26 |
| R. Lonnon | 22 not out |
| C. Mercer | 28 not out |
| L. Faulkner | DNB |
| J. Mabbett | DNB |
| D. Henson | DNB |
| G. Summersbee | DNB |
We managed to get the total in the 34th over when PoD took on Ian Danne, hitting three fours in four balls. It was an excellent close game.
Raffles got a closely fought man of the match for his batting and for getting one of the wickets. Peachy got Pigs ear for not being able to play because he’d had a tattoo the day before (Aaaaah).
We all had an enjoyable evening with a fish and chip supper and raised plenty of money for the club, and even had a game of smacky chest
Thanks to Geoff and Ian for putting on a good team to play us again and making it a great day.
12.15 at the club please, or you will be fined..!! Remember its a 1.30 Start..!!
1)Duncan Wooloff
2)David Henson
3)Tim Lane
4)Ryan Martin
5)Carl Wooloff
6)Grant Summersbee
7)Ian Challand
8)Mark Tugwell
9)Colin Mercer
10)Olly Taylor
11)Chaz Boshell
This week we are facing 4th, but let’s not let what happened at their place happen again, i.e one guy got all of their runs, after us missing an early chance. However the batting was very good against them and we were unlucky to lose by 2 runs after James “smasher” Mabbett went very close to winning it for us. For one week only, we have the worlds heaviest trio Carl, Tim and Mogno who are a combined 60stone of dynamic cricketing skill, waiting to be unleashed..!!
The bowling wasnt too bad last week against Eynsham, I along with the team are still confused as to how they got 197, Steve Yates bowled very well as did David “left arm over” Henson. No one bolwed that badly, perhaps just a little waywood at times. However the batting was another plus point, Tim Lane looking classy against their bowling attack and sending the ball to all parts of the ground, EVEN off Pinky..!!
With even more firepower this weekend, please someone get that elusive century and hopefully the 300 on the board.. 
It’s going to be a Sunny saturday, A Mrs Lane Tea and extra very strong 11, lets go team..!!
Good luck all.
Captain Duncan
With England on the verge of winning the Ashes, we had a match against Swindon Civil Service. Remarkably, both sides managed to get a full team out and took to the field with the sun shining on a hard and dry wicket.
Swindon had won the toss and had decided to bat. And bat they did. We found it amazingly hard to get our first wicket. In fact their number two batsman, M. Giddings retired on 100 galliantly letting some of the rest of his team have a bat, or possibly just protecting his average. Moobs, Chris Yates, Peachy, Tim Lane, Pippy and Muppet all tried in vain to get them out until at last, in the dying overs of the innings there was a breakthrough. Bill “Albert” Ross bowled their skipper in his second over with his slower ball, as he swung madly across the line trying to spank the ball out of the park. Then, next ball another one went, bowled again. Sadly, there wasn’t another wicket, and Swindon CS had set a mighty challenging 224 as a target for a Wantage victory.
Pippy attempted a crazy dive, chasing a skied ball over his head towards the boundary. A valiant effort, but unfortunately the ball didn’t stick in his hand. It was entertaining though.
Peachy got Pig’s Ear for his bowling figures.
J. Mabbett 6-0-30-0
C. Yates 5-0-22-0
A. Peach 6-0-51-0
T. Lane 5-1-31-0
R. Martin 5-0-26-0
D. Henson 5-0-39-0
B. Ross 3-0-12-2
Teas turned up just in time and much talk was about the test match where England was creeping closer to another Ashes victory.
PoD and Pippy padded up first and started off in style, not wasting any time to get runs on the board. Pippy smacked a six a couple of gardens back over long on to secure champagne moment. The first wicket, Pippy’s, went down in the tenth over with 69 runs on the board. We were well on target for a victory, but there was much more work to do. PoD was out shortly afterwards. Tim and Muppet set about doing most of it scoring 70 and 59 not out respectively. With contributions from Bill Ross and Moobs, and smiles on everyone’s faces as England took their last wicket to win, we also won, but with two and a half overs to spare.
C. Mercer 31
R. Martin 30
T. Lane 70
D. Henson 59 not out
B.Ross 15
J. Mabbett 10 not out
A. Peach DNB
S. Bramley DNB
C. MacKinnon DNB
C.Yates DNB
G. Summersbee DNB
Our Man of the Match was Tim Lane for his 70 runs and relatively economical bowling.
Next week the Presidents XI get the Wantage treatment.
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