With only one victory there were fewer fantasy points awarded than is usual. This, of course, made the ties in the last eight of the cup much tighter. The results were:-
The 3T’s (Pat Spencer) | 272 | won by 30 | 302 | Welsh Wizards (Wayne Griffiths) |
Holton’s Wicket Wonders (Laura Holton) | 294 | won by 101 | 193 | Dreadlocks (Ros Garrod) |
Caravan Club (Stuart McCollam) | 270 | won by 45 | 225 | Odd Oliver’s idiosyncratic 11 (Ben strange) |
Run Out of Ideas (Hugo Bradbury) | 308 | won by 133 | 175 | Prof's XI (Ben Phillips) |
The semi final matches will take place in two weeks time.
Welsh Wizards (Wayne Griffiths) | V | Run Out of Ideas (Hugo Bradbury) |
Holton’s Wicket Wonders (Laura Holton) | V | Caravan Club (Stuart McCollam) |
This was not a good day at the office for the Ist XI who were completely outplayed by Bishops Cannings. Another good opening stand ended on 37 and this became 90-3 at the first ‘refreshment break’ after 15 overs. Wickets then began to fall and the innings rather dribbled along. Both the BC change bowlers had excellent spells 2-26 and 1-29 respectively and this completely changed the complexion of the Winsley innings. All out 166 in 42 overs was never going to be enough with BC winning in the 33rd over 167-2. JNG took both wickets 2-24 (58fps) and a promising debut for James Cousens 0-34. It all looks quite tight at the top of the league now!
The 2nds headed off to Chippenham rugby club to play Allington. The home team batted first and steadily accumulated runs. Their final total of 223-8 largely depended on 85 from their captain. Gareth Pugh 3-47 and Peter Orchard 2-30 (55fps) led the bowling. The Winsley innings ended on 186-9 after their 45 overs. Four batsmen reached the 30s and it probably needed one or two to ‘go on’ and achieve the win. Toby Nightingale with 30, 1-35 and a catch was man of the match for Winsley (75fps).
The thirds have climbed four places off the bottom of division 8 with this win against Swindon Royal Challengers. Swindon batted first and were bowled out for just 112. Nelson Owen had superb figures of 4-22 (65 fps) and he was ably supported by Bella Tweddle who finished the innings with 3-13 off just 3 overs. (45fps). The runs were reached for the loss of 2 wickets in just 18 overs. The batting line up of Andy Owen 74* (119fps), Matt Cousins 22 and Kevin Hendy 22* proving to be far too strong. Next week there will be another key battle at the base of the division against Bradford-on-Avon 2s.
This was an important game against Swindon 5ths at Ramsbury. Batting first, Winsley were dismissed for 159 in the 37th over. Disappointingly, Swindon needed just 26 overs to reach their target for the loss of 5 wickets. Iwan Legg captained the team and had a good all round day winning the toss, top scoring with 36 and taking 2-25 (71fps). It was also good to see club stalwarts Niall 20 runs and Nigel Simpson 1-23 having good performances.
Ben has finalised this report during his rest breaks at the World Masters Hockey tournament in Rotterdam where he is officiating. Altogether, there will be 310 outdoor matches played over 10 days with the finals next Saturday.
As Josh and Matty can testify, a cricket tour of The Netherlands is great fun. How about Winsley men and women for preseason 2027?!
The week 13 leaderboard is:
Rank | Manager | Team Name | Total Points | Change From Previous Week |
1 | John Spencer | C’Mon Citeh | 6994 | 363 |
2 | Pat Spencer | The 3T’s | 6834 | 272 |
3 | Hugo Bradbury | Run Out of Ideas | 6492 | 308 |
4 | Chris Mann | Dos Cruzcampos por favour | 6173 | 208 |
5 | Simon Richards | Six Pistols | 6161 | 207 |
6 | Charlie holton | Chairman’s xi | 5901 | 219 |
7 | Ros Garrod | Dreadlocks | 5772 | 193 |
8 | Chris Hole | Stuck At Cow Corner | 5657 | 295 |
9 | Nick Swinburne | Viva España | 5655 | 251 |
10 | Wayne Griffiths | Welsh Wizards | 5575 | 302 |
11 | Laura Holton | Holton’s Wicket Wonders | 5547 | 294 |
12 | Simon Howell | The Photographers XI | 5514 | 268 |
13 | Jasper Richards | Jasper's Bumrah | 5450 | 196 |
14 | Thomas Felstead | Noggens Fc | 5290 | 129 |
15 | Stuart McCollam | Caravan Club | 5234 | 270 |
16 | Chris Tebb | Probably better using darts | 5223 | 142 |
17 | Vicki & Jon Keepen | Keepen The Faith | 5192 | 273 |
18 | Dexter holton | Dexters dynamos | 5192 | 226 |
19 | Noah Holton-Hunt | Holton-Hunt's Heros | 5158 | 362 |
20 | Jenny Smith | Granny's winners | 5136 | 223 |
21 | Josh Norgrove | Berries and not many cherries | 5129 | 183 |
22 | Ben strange | Odd Oliver’s idiosyncratic 11 | 5072 | 225 |
23 | Elly Norgrove | EllysXI | 5051 | 283 |
24 | Neil Hussey | Allez Les Greens | 5037 | 189 |
25 | Freddie Richards | Full Toss Tossers | 4966 | 141 |
26 | Kirsty Clark | Winsley Dragons | 4914 | 315 |
27 | Jan Light | See the Light | 4833 | 389 |
28 | Ben Phillips | Prof's XI | 4825 | 175 |
29 | Toby Nightingale | Tobinators | 4776 | 313 |
30 | Pete Merrell | Barrow Street Farmers | 4665 | 211 |
31 | Adrian Jeffrey | Viking Gold | 4401 | 290 |
32 | Keith Potter | Potter's Pirates | 4371 | 187 |
33 | Matthew Garrod | Seagull Steamers | 4275 | 138 |
34 | Emily Richards | Walking the boundary with Scout | 4231 | 251 |
35 | Erica Baxter | NeverGonnaSayGoodbye XI | 4203 | 190 |
36 | Michelle Hole | Where’s Woakes and Woody | 4180 | 68 |
37 | Peter orchard | Old and new | 4044 | 271 |
38 | Tim Merrell | Timmy’s Triers | 4013 | 130 |
39 | Ben Garrod | In ChatGPT I Trust | 3810 | 125 |
40 | Fi Llywelln | Fi Fi Fo Fum | 3728 | 137 |
41 | Niall MacDougall | Wot5points! | 3633 | 227 |
42 | Iwan Legg | Joss wrights duck pond | 3629 | 223 |
43 | Martyn Garrod | The Dead Balls | 3522 | 214 |
44 | Josh Lewis | Boomstick Brigade | 3419 | 162 |
45 | Cameron Selway | Norfolk In Chance | 3324 | 130 |
46 | Kevin Hendy | And in First Place | 3272 | 116 |
47 | Jaime iles | Iles Be Back | 3078 | 164 |
48 | Peter Mundy | Bored of Peas | 2780 | 88 |
49 | Nadeem Ahmed | Western Force | 2698 | 118 |
50 | Ben Howe | Yabba Dabba we bat too | 2570 | 167 |
51 | Darren OConnor | GreenMachine | 1945 | 109 |
Top 5 improving teams of the week:
Rank | Manager | Team Name | Total Points | Weekly Change |
1 | Jan Light | See the Light | 4833 | 389 |
2 | John Spencer | C’Mon Citeh | 6994 | 363 |
3 | Noah Holton-Hunt | Holton-Hunt's Heros | 5158 | 362 |
4 | Kirsty Clark | Winsley Dragons | 4914 | 315 |
5 | Toby Nightingale | Tobinators | 4776 | 313 |
Team of the week:
List A | Andy Owen | Charlie Holton | Gareth Pugh |
List B | Toby Nightingale | Peter Orchard | Bella Tweddle | Sam Mcwade |
List C | Iwan Legg | Nelson Owen | Josh Norgrove-Gray |
List D | Jon Keepen |
This team would have scored 669 points and would have cost 65 units. With Andy Owen as captain, it would have scored 798 points.
League position graph:
Next week’s fixtures are:
Team | League | Opposition | Venue |
Winsley | Division 1 | Swindon 2 | Away |
Winsley 2 | Division 4 | White Horse | Home |
Winsley 3 | Division 8 | Bradford-on-Avon 2 | Away |
Winsley 4 | Division 10 | Spye Park 2 | Home |
All the best,
Martyn and Ben
