Oxford Downs Cricket Club

Oxford Downs are a thriving amateur cricket club playing from Standlake (nr. Witney) in Oxfordshire. Our 1st, 2nd and 3rd XI's play in the Cherwell Cricket League - Divisions 1, 3 and 8 respectively, the 2nd and 3rd XI's having won promotion this year - and we have a healthy number of junior teams involved in cricket in the area, including a girls cricket team.

Coaching is a priority, especially for the Juniors, and our Junior Coaching evenings are quite a spectacle with upwards of 100 boys and girls of all ages spread across the pitch, learning the sport with the help of many committed, approved coaches. (We should mention an equal number of adults spread in and around the clubhouse!)

Oxford Downs are as much a social club as they are a sporting one. Social members are welcome and enjoy the facilities of the clubhouse (bar, food, comfy seats, sport on TV) and the regular events that the club organises throughout the year.

Somewhere in the middle of the cricketing and social sides are the Black Sheep. Less serious on the cricket side maybe, but very earnest on the socialising side. Not to be left out, the ladies have recently formed the White Lambs, who have similar aspirations. They would have been the Pink Sheep but that moniker has been claimed by the girls team. 

Junior Coaching Wednesday 28th July

IS   ON

Weather forecast is cloudy, sunny intervals, max. 21C.

Weather in detail

Hot food available (burgers, sausage, chips etc.) and the bar will be open.

News Bytes

Summer Coaching Course

There will be another 3-day Summer Camp for 9-15yrs old this August, open to members and non-members alike. More here..

1st Team Averages

... have been compiled by Simon Launder. Look in the Main Menu.

The Wakefield Summer Quiz

Compiled by Chris Wakefield in aid of Cancer Research. Download it, print it out, distribute it and email it to whomever you can. Only £5 an entry for a worthy cause. Word or PDF.

Safbats All Out Win!

Kudos aplenty for Andreas who supplied one of his handmade bats for All Out Cricket's Gear Test 2010. In a blind test (no identifying marks on the bat) of 40 bats with five top batsmen (Hick et.al.) the Safbat came out top. Best Bat, Editor's Pick and Best Value.

"Sensational winners of the AOC's GEAR TEST 2010 seeing off all the big beasts to be crowned the finest blade of the year"

View the AOC Gear Test 2010 video here.

Nice one fella.

Can members please form an orderly queue to pick up a Safbat at pre-season prices.