Week 10

Week 10 sees the return fixtures from the opening day of the season where games were mostly abandoned at tea time due to persistent rain. With no sign of rain the Ist XI won the toss and batted on an excellent Winsley wicket. Once again, Charlie Holton 67 (102 fps) and Freddie Richards 50 (105 fps) provided an excellent foundation for the innings with an opening stand of 116. Run rate was around 4.5 an over at the time. JNG came in with the score at 144-2. Josh then batted with great ferocity scoring a 49 ball century with 14 fours and 6 sixes in his 115*. With Stuart McCollam 30*- Josh put an undefeated 120 for the 4th wicket, Winsley finishing on 304-3.

I looked back this season at Wootton Bassett’s recent scorecards and noticed that it is normal for their ‘fifth bowler’ to bowl 9 of the final 18 overs. This certainly backfired on Saturday as these 9 overs went for 90 runs. However I should report that opening bowler H Griffin had figures of 7 overs for 31 but finished with 9 overs for 71; Josh was in phenomenal form.

Wootton Bassett were in a good position to chase down the score but rather settled for an excellent 262-7 with their captain E.Burke scoring 102* in 90 balls. Josh with 2-43 and Matty Garrod 2-47 were the main wicket takers. This gave Josh 245 fantasy points just 11 short of Freddie’s total against Biddestone a couple of weeks ago.

The 2nd XI travelled to Beckington. Winsley scored 176 in 41 overs and Beckington reached their target with the loss of 6 wickets and 3 overs remaining. Wickets fell regularly in the Winsley innings with only Modester 37 making a significant score and, of course, it was disappointing to not use all the overs. Ben Strange led the wicket takers with 3-32 and Peter Orchard took 2-13 (74 fps). Both Peter’s wickets were attributed to Modester at wicket-keeper (57 fps).

Swindon Super Strikers were the opposition for the 3rds at Southwick. A very tense finish saw SSS win by just one wicket with 5 overs to spare. Winsley scored 182-9 and SSS 183-9. Kevin Hendy 34 and Ethan Pugh 32 (52 fps) led the batting with John Iles again man of the match with 4-36 (99fps). Bella Tweddle also had a good all round day with a catch, run out and 2-21 (61fps).

The 4ths travelled to Erlestoke and had a difficult afternoon in the field. Batting first, Winsley reached 186ao in 35 overs. Top scorers were Henry Sparrowhawk and Sonny Mears who both scored 37. In reply Erlestoke took just 23 overs for the loss of no wickets with Graeme Morrison 109*. Henry Sparrowhawk’s figures of 5-0-23-0 earned him man of the match (47 fps).

Winsley ladies made the long trip to Bridgwater for their WEPL match on Sunday. Bridgwater reached 323-5 in their 40 overs with Emma Mason scoring a magnificent 166. For Winsley, Lauren Adams took 3-57. In reply, Winsley lost early wickets and were bowled out for 79 after 17 overs. Modester 17 and Charlotte Morrison 12 were the top scorers.

Draw for the next round of the cup on Saturday is:-

The 3T’s (Pat Spencer)	V	Probably better using darts (Chris Tebb)
C’Mon Citeh (John Spencer)	V	Holton’s Wicket Wonders (Laura Holton)
Where’s Woakes and Woody (Michelle Hole)	V	Caravan Club (Stuart McCollam)
Run Out of Ideas (Hugo Bradbury)	V	Stuck At Cow Corner (Chris Hole)
Prof's XI (Ben Phillips)	V	Iles Be Back (Jaime iles)
Odd Oliver’s idiosyncratic 11 (Ben strange)	V	Full Toss Tossers (Freddie Richards)
Barrow Street Farmers (Pete Merrell)	V	Dreadlocks (Ros Garrod)
Welsh Wizards (Wayne Griffiths)	V	Noggens Fc (Thomas Felstead

The week 10 leaderboard is:

Rank	Manager	Team Name	Total Points	Change From Previous Week
1	John Spencer	C’Mon Citeh	5819	906
2	Pat Spencer	The 3T’s	5606	801
3	Hugo Bradbury	Run Out of Ideas	5455	841
4	Simon Richards	Six Pistols	5177	680
5	Chris Mann	Dos Cruzcampos por favour	5106	834
6	Ros Garrod	Dreadlocks	4836	476
7	Nick Swinburne	Viva España	4753	568
8	Chris Hole	Stuck At Cow Corner	4674	785
9	Wayne Griffiths	Welsh Wizards	4626	527
10	Jasper Richards	Jasper's Bumrah	4547	747
11	Thomas Felstead	Noggens Fc	4546	609
12	Charlie holton	Chairman’s xi	4493	818
13	Simon Howell	The Photographers XI	4488	761
14	Chris Tebb	Probably better using darts	4422	702
15	Laura Holton	Holton’s Wicket Wonders	4366	739
16	Stuart McCollam	Caravan Club	4348	783
17	Elly Norgrove	EllysXI	4325	830
18	Freddie Richards	Full Toss Tossers	4276	715
19	Neil Hussey	Allez Les Greens	4204	604
20	Dexter holton	Dexters dynamos	4163	373
21	Vicki & Jon Keepen	Keepen The Faith	4123	599
22	Josh Norgrove	Berries and not many cherries	4113	658
23	Jenny Smith	Granny's winners	4098	534
24	Kirsty Clark	Winsley Dragons	4061	660
25	Ben strange	Odd Oliver’s idiosyncratic 11	4052	703
26	Ben Phillips	Prof's XI	4043	688
27	Noah Holton-Hunt	Holton-Hunt's Heros	3956	801
28	Jan Light	See the Light	3834	473
29	Matthew Garrod	Seagull Steamers	3804	283
30	Toby Nightingale	Tobinators	3802	547
31	Adrian Jeffrey	Viking Gold	3691	759
32	Pete Merrell	Barrow Street Farmers	3664	291
33	Michelle Hole	Where’s Woakes and Woody	3657	507
34	Emily Richards	Walking the boundary with Scout	3545	368
35	Keith Potter	Potter's Pirates	3512	234
36	Erica Baxter	NeverGonnaSayGoodbye XI	3460	396
37	Peter orchard	Old and new	3163	575
38	Fi Llywelln	Fi Fi Fo Fum	3143	566
39	Tim Merrell	Timmy’s Triers	3139	202
40	Ben Garrod	In ChatGPT I Trust	3089	251
41	Iwan Legg	Joss wrights duck pond	3048	592
42	Martyn Garrod	The Dead Balls	2895	208
43	Cameron Selway	Norfolk In Chance	2834	273
44	Jaime iles	Iles Be Back	2829	182
45	Kevin Hendy	And in First Place	2684	431
46	Josh Lewis	Boomstick Brigade	2676	237
47	Niall MacDougall	Wot5points!	2583	658
48	Peter Mundy	Bored of Peas	2266	162
49	Nadeem Ahmed	Western Force	2178	164
50	Ben Howe	Yabba Dabba we bat too	1974	200
51	Darren OConnor	GreenMachine	1521	291

Top 5 improving teams of the week:

Rank	Manager	Team Name	Total Points	Weekly Change
1	John Spencer	C’Mon Citeh	5819	906
2	Hugo Bradbury	Run Out of Ideas	5455	841
3	Chris Mann	Dos Cruzcampos por favour	5106	834
4	Elly Norgrove	EllysXI	4325	830
5	Charlie holton	Chairman’s xi	4493	818

Team of the week:

List A	Freddie Richards	Charlie Holton	Michael Sherring
List B	Peter Orchard	Bella Tweddle	Henry Sparrowhawk	Wayne Griffiths
List C	Josh Norgrove-Gray	John Iles	Ethan Pugh
List D	Modester Mupachitwa

This team would have scored 916 points and would have cost 59 units. With Josh Norgrove-Gray as captain, it would have scored 1161 points.

League position graph:

Next week’s fixtures are:

Team	League	Opposition	Venue	Previous encounters
Winsley	Division 1	Malmesbury	Away	2026:Winsley won by 184 runs. 2024: Won by 5 wickets 2023: Lost by 22 runs
Winsley 2	Division 4	Coastal Cobras	Home	2026:Coastal Cobras won by 39 runs. 2 Aug 2025: Lost by 146 runs 31 May 2025: Won by 3 runs
Winsley 3	Division 8	Corsham 4	Away	2026: Winsley won by 9 runs. 2022: Won by 6 wickets 2022: Won by 81 runs
Winsley 4	Division 10	Chippenham 5	Home	2026: Chippenham won by 211 runs

Honours Board:

Centuries
Week	Player	Team	Opposition	Runs
2	Freddie Richards	Winsley	Malmesbury	102
3	Bruno Broughton	Winsley	Melksham	100
4	Michael Sherring	Winsley 4	Swindon 5	127
5	Charlie Holton	Winsley	Swindon 2	109
8	Freddie Richards	Winsley	Biddestone	151
8	Charlie Holton	Winsley	Biddestone	100
10	Josh Norgrove-Gray	Winsley	Royal Wootton Bassett 2	115

Five Wicket Hauls
Week	Player	Team	Opposition	Figures
3	Jasper Richards	Winsley	Melksham	5-0-12-6
4	Finn Hughes	Winsley 4	Swindon 5	6-0-25-5
5	John Iles	Winsley 3	Bradford-on-Avon 2	9-1-42-7
8	Jasper Richards	Winsley	Biddestone	9-2-34-5

All the best,

Martyn and Ben