CRICKET: Beer is hero in thriller (From The Oxford Times)

CRICKET: Beer is hero in thriller

11:00am Friday 29th June 2012 in Cricket By Ed Mezzetti, Sports reporter specialising in Rugby, Cricket and Athletics. Call me on 01865 425456

Bernard Tollet Oxfordshire Cup

RICHARD Beer’s 17 not out saw Oxford beat Thame Town by three wickets with two balls to spare in round one.

SCORES

1st round: Thame Town 89 (T Geeson-Brown 4-21), Oxford 92-7.

2nd round: Abingdon Vale 116-7 (M Howe-Davies 37, A Fox 37), Challow & Childrey 91 (J Butcher 4-10, D Hartley 3-12).

Witney Mills 65-8, Kingston Bagpuize 70-1 (M Shepherd 32no).

Oxford & Bletchingdon Nondesripts 130-9 (P Mukherjee 48, A Worby 3-29), Cropredy 110 (L Cherry 32, J Chitty 3-22).

3RD ROUND DRAW

Tiddington or Stanton St John Willows v Oxford or Horspath, Abingdon Vale v Cumnor, Oxford & Bletchingdon Nondescripts v Horley or Sandford St Martin, Kingston Bagpuize v Oxford Downs. Seeded teams Shipton-under-Wychwood, Banbury, Great & Little Tew and Aston Rowant enter at the quarter-final stage. Losing quarter-finalists compete for the Wilf Bennett Trophy.