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