A long held dream of the club was finally realised on Sunday as the new practice facility was officially opened at Pinkney Park. I had the pleasure of introducing Neil Forster the club president and Steve Silk CEO of Gloucestershire Cricket Board. Neil took a few moments to reminisce about the early years of the club and Steve talked about … Read More
Sherston punished for sloppiness despite Hulance Hat-trick
The weather has seemingly been kind so far in the cricket season, and another glorious Saturday of sunshine greeted us a we met at Angel House for the short trip to Cricklade. The day started well, the skipper winning the toss and looking to know what we were chasing inserted the opposition on what looked like a slowish pitch and … Read More
A humbling at home!
Saturday 2.15pm came around this week with a fair amount of optimism and confidence from two wins out of two. One comfortable and one not so comfortable. SMCC had been inserted by the Stow skipper on what looked like a belter of a deck! Unfortunately, like too often in life, looks were deceiving…. Cue the top order being undone by … Read More
Sherston continue winning ways
Well we left Sherston on what seemed like a very pleasant spring day. But by the time we had reached the Oakridge ground, this year without to many detours, it could only be described as a two jumper day. After a very convincing win the previous week confidence was high even after we had lost the toss again. Sherston were … Read More
A mighty win for the mighty Magna
On a glorious summers day… somewhere in the world, we started our league season on a very grey cold day. We lost the toss and were put into bat. With 10 overs gone we were 39-3, but then up stepped Will Matthews and Chris Lovell with what must be a club record 4th wicket partnership of 264! Will played an … Read More
Runs, wickets and locks
Cricket got started at Pinkney park last weekend good and proper with a good run out verses a decent chipping Sodbury side. A sunny day looked like it was destined to be spoiled due to someone who shall remain nameless (well let’s call him Andrew J for anonymity) put the wrong lock on the outside of the pavilion and took … Read More
New Magna Magic Issue!
Hello All Now that most of the Easter chocolate has been consumed and the sun is out attention can get back to were it belongs cricket. So please see below the link to the latest edition of Magna Magic. If you would like to download it you will need a copy of Adobe reader, which you can download here Magna … Read More
A Cricket Widow’s Tale
And so it begins; the first friendly game of the season commenced over the Easter weekend. This means the good news is nets have finished on a Sunday, bad news is nets are now on Wednesday evenings and there has already been a cricket meeting. The first Saturday game resulted in a slight logistical problem for James and I as … Read More
Sunday 9th February vs. Bradford-upon-Avon
Sherston batted first and made a solid start with Matt Goodwin retiring in the 4th over with 25*. Some quick-fire scoring from the next few batters, continued the good start and we ended up with an impressive score of 109-4 off 10 overs. Unfortunately due to inconsistent bowling and good batting from Bradford, they managed to reach the total with the loss of 3 … Read More
The Lighter Side
Our man Matty in trouble? It would appear so, apparently he’s struggling to find anything to moan about – it can only mean it must be the closed season. We all know rain is the number one enemy of all things cricket.. it prevents play, it stops play, it generally buggers up the game of cricket. Well, we have had … Read More