U.11 v. Shrivenham (H): AC/BC won on the last ball!

U.11 v. Westbury (A): match cancelled

U.15 v. Biddestone (A): Biddestone won by 7 wkts.
AC/BC 104 all out, Matt Warmsley 47; Biddestone 109 for 3, T.Weedham 52 n.o, Guy Perritt 2 for 21

U.11 v. Chippenham (H): AC/BC 55 for 7; Chippenham 56 for 7. A close-fought but friendly game. AC/BC strated slowly but surely with Louca and Lever. Will Foot and Barney Goodall then put on 17 for the 5th wicket and Barney batted through to top score on 11 n.o. (except for wides at 29!). Good bowling from Cannings saw wickets fall (Tom Alsop 2 for 6) but Chippenham kept the run-rate up and with a vital 4 at the last minute, won with 4 balls of the 20 overs to spare.

U.15 v. Purton (BC):

U.11 v. Calne (A):

U.13 AC friendly v. Shrewton (A): Shrewton opened the batting but found runs difficult to get due to tight bowling by our two openers - Ollie Goodall with 3 straight maidens and Ben W. Riley taking 2 wickets for 4 runs. Robert Burry, playing as captain, took 2 wickets for 4 runs in his 2 overs and Chris Botham and Sam Williams were on for hat-tricks together following 2 excellent catches by Sam as wicket keeper. Daniel Bain then produced some dramatic bowling and took a wicket much to his surprise! Shrewton finished with 64 runs in their 20 overs. Robert Burry and Jacob Rogers opened the batting for All Cannings, Robert batting very maturely and retiring at 28 n.o. Shrewton's bowlers struggled against our batsmen with 6 retirements, 2 not-outs and only 1 wicket lost. The game was won after 9 overs, but it was agreed to play the full 20 overs. Notable performances from Ben, scoring a 6 (and losing the ball in the trees!) and Daniel who started with a 4. Michael Shantry was looking good but unfortunately ran out of overs. Overall we had a great morning's cricket and special thanks to Barney Goodall for stepping in to help us out when he wasn't feeling well and Jacob, Henry and Chris for joining us from Bishops Cannings. Also thank you Adrian, who never gets the chance to just watch a match and relax!

U.15 v. Swindon (A):

U.13 AC friendly vs. Marlborough. Despite being in competition with a certain England football game, the boys were full of enthusiasm for this match. In order to share out the honours, Archie Osborne was captain this week and did a fine job. We tried a bit of cheating by fielding 12 for the first 2 overs but were soon found out, so then swopped in and out every 2 overs - at least it kept Archie on his toes!

Ollie Goodall opened the bowling with some lovely action getting his first wicket in the first over. He then followed this up with some top fielding. Robert Burry followed and took another wicket and Ben Walker-Riley made a great catch. But Marlborough then started to pile up the runs. Daniel Bain made a great stop - unfortunately with his ankle which put him out of the game for a couple of overs. Luckily we had our extra man - Paris Goddard who has joined us from Seend. His enthusiasm for the game was a real tonic. Marcus O'Connor went on to make a great catch and we finished the innings with great bowling from Ben taking 3 wickets in the 16th over. Marlborough finished on 103 and all this with continual score up-dates from Marlborough boys in the pavilion watching the England match!

James Cracknall and Sam Williams opened the batting and unfortunately James was caught very early on. Sam went on to produce some fine runs - almost scoring a 6 and running 3 runs off one ball with great calling - which I overheard was 'impossible' to do on their small field! Sam scored 24 altogether. We couldn't quite match Marlborough's batting however and finished with 74, but at least it meant the whole team went in! Well done to all the boys. It was a great match with lots of encouragement given to each other making a good atmosphere and a lot of fun. Many thanks to Terry Paterson for coming over to umpire for us and a Marlborough dad for doing our scoring! P.S. Sven was quite pleased with his team too!