VP's XI

Lovely day, lovely ground, lovely tea, shame about our batting really...

OECCC 145 for 8 25 pts
Holmesfield 132ao 6 pts

A huge win in the first of our 6 home games played away....

Here are the teams for the Saturday 22nd and the 1st XI in the National KO on Sunday.... Read on

OECCC 222 for 6
SWD 168 for 7
15 point winning draw..........unbeaten run continues. Now read om....

Here are the teams for the weekend with 5 teams playing on Saturday.
on Sunday the 1stXI play their re-arranged National KO at home and the 3rd XI play in the Michael Savage Memorial Trophy at home

Here are the teams for Sat 8th May and Sun 9th for the 1st XI in the National KO, read on .....

Parkhead 139 for 8 13pts
OECCC 100 for 7 7pts

On one of our rare visits to Abbeydale Park we found the new facilities which had almost been completed last August still not ready for use. Further subscription refunds will be expected. We won the toss again and Ian Davey and Danny Pearson got us off to a very good start keeping it tight and picking up wickets. Particular praise due to Dan after a long lay off who as he remarked himself "had come over all Gus Fraser". Gibbo showed some improvement on last week but still managed a nine ball over again. "Pony-boy" Street gave up very little cumulatively totting up to 29 overs for 46 runs over the two matches so far. We did,in the end, concede too many runs through a combination of horrid mis-fields on the short boundary, unnecessary extras and Skipper's Pies which accompanied his 3 late wickets. 25 less would have been getable even for our very thin batting. Early wickets fell until Joe Root and Chris Street came together in an unlikely Little and Large event adding 46 for the 5th wicket. Streety made a very circumspect 29 top score in the match. Rooty continued in his unflappable way batting through 36 overs for 21 not out as we settled for the losing draw points. Particularly enjoyable was his salute to the crowd when he finally middled a four off the very last ball to bring up the hundred and a batting point. Deservedly the little fella got a warm hand from the opposition as he led the players off.
Next game not for a fortnight when our true team should finally take shape as Joe's Dad and Hespey step up to be evaluated on the testing ground of Olive Grove.

We have 5 teams out on Saturday and the 1st XI are at home on Bank holiday Monday. Please confirm to your captains asap

Hathersage 114 for 9 3pts. OECCC 117 for 5 **20pts**
So a win to start and a big one next week against Parkhead at home. Where is that again?.....

Here are the teams for the weekend of 24 April 2004, the first weekend of the season. As this is the first weekend - PLEASE confirm with your captain that you are indeed available. If you aren't listed - PLEASE make sure one of the team captains knows you are available, the lists are likely to be volatile for the first week or so!

Wait for them..........

Here are the 4th XI Averages (Yorkshire/Derbyshire Div 1) for 2003

OK - here are the teams for the final weekend of the season

Beautiful sunny day on the top ground, flat wicket and fast outfield - the scene was set but what was to follow wasn't part of the script....

Here are the teams for the weekend of 6-7 September 2003